Hopefully this game
I love the finger guns
Nothing mickey mouse is boring as fuck
Might become interesting now.
More lobbying?
Hallelujah!! Maybe now we’ll finally see the conclusion to Air Pirates!
I just saw a post with an article saying indie filmmakers already scrambling to make a horror movie like the Pooh one.
Massive amounts of rule 34
Steamboat Willie’s steamboat willy
Ahh. It was copyright keeping us safe from that.
Smash Bros. DLC
Steamboat horror story
I expect someone to train a video machine learning algo to produce any plot of any cartoon promptable in the featured style.
Then any of the above.
A veritable orgy of uninspired crap taking advantage of the fact that people want to feel subversive but don’t actually want to subvert anything or say or do anything interesting, because all of those things are hard.
Basically the same thing as the Pooh-but-not-tigger comics you see posted on here that people pretend are funny.
Tbh when it comes to stuff like the pooh movie. I think that probably could count as fair use anyway. Ultimately I’ve been hoping for more things to enter public domain for historical preservation via piracy. Just look at Nintendo not only have they done nothing to preserve older games but they seem to go out of their way to make sure they get erased. Because how dare someone get a product you don’t even sell anymore. I just see these parody? films and think the only reason they exist is because copyright life has been extended for soo far that people are giddy that they can now use and distribute old content.
honest to god fact
That is the thing I’m seeing the most this past year and it’s already starting up for this year - there seems to be little thoughtfulness being put into things online. It’s just a firehose of high-engagement, low-impact, low-thought chaff.
Edit: Saw this 2 posts after this one: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/7129376
Steamboat Willy porn
Mickey doing a Cleveland steamer on Minney in a boat chugging down the river.
Steamboat’s Willy
Willy’s steamy boat
Oh, is that Vikings Love Boat docudrama finally getting made?
Mickey Mouse starring in Steamboat Willy’s Death Boat Race 2000, Electric Boogaloo.
Monetized rule 34 Mickey stuff.
I predict a complete overhaul of our trademark and copyright laws that will accommodate Disney’s desires.
You know… Basically what they did last time.
Too late for copyright laws, it’s in the public domain and can’t go back afaik. Now trademark laws can be interesting.
Oh, they already managed to “fix” copyright retroactively once.
Actually SCOTUS ruled that extending the copyright pulls it out of public domain in Golan v Holder. Congress passed a law that put some literary and musical works back into copyright from the public domain. A case was brought by some educators and musicians that the removal of these works from the public domain infri get on their free speech, but the Court disagreed 6-2.
Doing that for Trademark law is why they didn’t bother lobbying for longer copyright this time. They could protect their Mouse trademark without relying on Steamboat Willy like they did before.
Quite honestly: nothing. Some folks might deliberately use Steamboat Willie in some content because they can, and Disney will likely try and attack some of those people in court based on trademark law if applicable.
But I don’t really see a lot of actual utility in the Steamboat Willie character, outside of Disney itself. Any use of it is ultimately just referring to the “I can do this now” aspect of having just entered public domain, which frankly isn’t that interesting.
use Steamboat Willy in some content because they can
“Fuck you, Disney! Look what I can do now” *makes armpit fart noises*
Ha, I mean, yeah. What other reason would someone want Steamboat Willie?
I legit hope there is one for artistic purposes. I just think the majority will not be for artistic purposes.
Saw ONE design of the character on Twitter that actually made for an interesting idea that could be expanded upon, there IS space for someone to do smth cool about it but I honestly don’t think anyone will. Hey, Toontown Rewritten could model this Mickey and use it for something I guess.
But I don’t really see a lot of actual utility in the Steamboat Willy character
Could he be used to sell riverboat cruises?
If you look what happened with pooh I’m guessing we may see the same thing happen here. There will definitely be testing of the waters on what people can do
