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  10                 <title>Welcome out of prison, Mickey, hope you find some freedom!</title>
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  13                 <pubDate>Wed, 1 Jan 2025 20:45:00 +0100</pubDate>
  14                 <description>&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2024-01-01-mikke-verk-i-det-fri.jpeg&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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  16 &lt;p&gt;Today, the animation figure Mickey Mouse finally was released from
  17 the corporate copyright prison, as the 1928 movie
  18 &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steamboat_Willie&quot;&gt;Steamboat
  19 Willie&lt;/a&gt; entered the public domain in USA.  Sadly the figure is
  20 still on probation, thanks to trademark laws and a the Disney
  21 corporations powerful pack of lawyers, as described in the 2017 article
  22 in &lt;a href=&quot;https://priceonomics.com/how-mickey-mouse-evades-the-public-domain/&quot;&gt;&quot;How
  23 Mickey Mouse Evades the Public Domain&quot;&lt;/a&gt; from Priceonomics.  On the
  24 positive side, the primary driver for repeated extentions of the
  25 duration of copyright has been Disney thanks to Mickey Mouse and the
  26 2028 movie, and as it now in the public domain I hope it will cause
  27 less urge to extend the already unreasonable long copyright
  28 duration.&lt;/p&gt;
  29
  30 &lt;p&gt;The first book I published, the 2004 book &lt;a
  31 href=&quot;https://free-culture.cc/&quot;&gt;&quot;Free Culture&quot; by Lawrence Lessig&lt;/a&gt;,
  32 &lt;a href=&quot;https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/publisher/#frikultur&quot;&gt;published
  33 2015 in English, French and Norwegian Bokmål&lt;/a&gt;, touch on the story
  34 of Disney pushed for extending the copyright duration in USA.  It is a
  35 great book explaining problems with the current copyright regime and
  36 why we need Creative Commons movement, and I strongly recommend
  37 everyone to read it.&lt;/p&gt;
  38
  39 &lt;p&gt;This movie (with
  40 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0019422/&quot;&gt;IMDB ID tt0019422&lt;/a&gt;)
  41 is now available from the Internet Archive.  Two copies have been
  42 uploaded so far, one uploaded
  43 &lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/details/SteamboatWillie&quot;&gt;2015-11-04&lt;/a&gt;
  44 (&lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/download/SteamboatWillie/SteamboatWillie_archive.torrent&quot;&gt;torrent&lt;/a&gt;)
  45 and the other
  46 &lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/details/steamboat-willie-mickey&quot;&gt;2023-01-01&lt;/a&gt;
  47 (&lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/download/steamboat-willie-mickey/steamboat-willie-mickey_archive.torrent&quot;&gt;torrent&lt;/a&gt;).
  48 I am very happy to see
  49 &lt;a href=&quot;https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Legal_to_share_more_than_16_000_movies_listed_on_IMDB_.html&quot;&gt;the
  50 number of public domain movies&lt;/a&gt; increasing.  I look forward to
  51 when those are the majority.  Perhaps it will reduce the urge of the
  52 copyright industry to control its customers.&lt;/p&gt;
  53
  54 &lt;p&gt;A more
  55 &lt;a href=&quot;https://publicdomainreview.org/features/entering-the-public-domain/2024/&quot;&gt;comprehensive
  56 list of works entering the public domain in 2024&lt;/a&gt; is available from
  57 the Public Domain Review.&lt;/p&gt;
  58
  59 &lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
  60 activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
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