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From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2024 20:54:49 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] New post on Mickey Mouse in the public domain.

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+Title: Welcome out of prison, Mickey, hope you find some freedom!
+Tags: english, opphavsrett, verkidetfri
+Date: 2025-01-01 20:45
+
+<p align="center"><img src="https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2024-01-01-mikke-verk-i-det-fri.jpeg"/></p>
+
+<p>Today, the animation figure Mickey Mouse finally was released from
+the corporate copyright prison, as the 1928 movie
+<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steamboat_Willie">Steamboat
+Willie</a> entered the public domain in USA.  Sadly the figure is
+still on probation, thanks to trademark laws and a the Disney
+corporations powerful pack of lawyers, as described in the 2017 article
+in <a href="https://priceonomics.com/how-mickey-mouse-evades-the-public-domain/">"How
+Mickey Mouse Evades the Public Domain"</a> from Priceonomics.  On the
+positive side, the primary driver for repeated extentions of the
+duration of copyright has been Disney thanks to Mickey Mouse and the
+2028 movie, and as it now in the public domain I hope it will cause
+less urge to extend the already unreasonable long copyright
+duration.</p>
+
+<p>The first book I published, the 2004 book <a
+href="https://free-culture.cc/">"Free Culture" by Lawrence Lessig</a>,
+<a href="https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/publisher/#frikultur">published
+2015 in English, French and Norwegian Bokmål</a>, touch on the story
+of Disney pushed for extending the copyright duration in USA.  It is a
+great book explaining problems with the current copyright regime and
+why we need Creative Commons movement, and I strongly recommend
+everyone to read it.</p>
+
+<p>This movie (with
+<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0019422/">IMDB ID tt0019422</a>)
+is now available from the Internet Archive.  Two copies have been
+uploaded so far, one uploaded
+<a href="https://archive.org/details/SteamboatWillie">2015-11-04</a>
+(<a href="https://archive.org/download/SteamboatWillie/SteamboatWillie_archive.torrent">torrent</a>)
+and the other
+<a href="https://archive.org/details/steamboat-willie-mickey">2023-01-01</a>
+(<a href="https://archive.org/download/steamboat-willie-mickey/steamboat-willie-mickey_archive.torrent">torrent</a>).
+I am very happy to see
+<a href="https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Legal_to_share_more_than_16_000_movies_listed_on_IMDB_.html">the
+number of public domain movies</a> increasing.  I look forward to
+when those are the majority.  Perhaps it will reduce the urge of the
+copyright industry to control its customers.</p>
+
+<p>A more
+<a href="https://publicdomainreview.org/features/entering-the-public-domain/2024/">comprehensive
+list of works entering the public domain in 2024</a> is available from
+the Public Domain Review.</p>
+
+<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
+activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
+<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
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