Current Events > It's amusing how salty people get about Disney lobbying for copyright laws.

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Literally all that would change if they didn't do this is you'd be able to watch their old stuff for free, and make money selling their old products. Disney is just making sure they're able to sell properties they made and nobody else, which is fine.

So many people keep insisting someone else could do something cool when the copyrights expire because they don't understand the difference between copyright and trademark :/

If some of the later Mickey Mouse stuff does eventually enter the public domain, there will be an interesting intellectual property fight a few years down the road. Disney will almost certainly try to use their trademarks to keep the "public-domain" cartoons out of the public's hands, and in fact they've already done this once.

You thought the Happy Birthday/Warner Bros. dispute was bad? You ain't seen nothing yet.
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What I don't get is why Disney doesn't just sell all their shit year round. Doing a limited time release every ten years or whatever doesn't seem like that great of a strategy. It just makes people want to illegally download it more.

There's always enough nostalgia to power sales and parents who want to show their kids the movies they watched when they were young.
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