At least the U.S. there is debate about whether Mickey Mouse should enter public domain
The term extension isn’t getting much attention because it was taken for granted that it would happen when it was included in the CUSMA agreement. This now leads to a moral paradox: the Liberals surrender to the U.S. Congress and the Walt Disney Company on copyright, and because they are bound by the terms of that surrender — in a manner that— we throw up our hands and say “Well, what can you do?”
For starters, you might consider legislating transparently. When Disney starts getting nervous about Mickey Mouse plummeting into the public domain, Congress inevitably acts to extend the length of copyright in American law, never without a great deal of fuss. Under the primordial American constitution, copyright could be invoked for a maximum of 28 years whether the author or artist happened to die or not.
that the company would otherwise expect to receive, again, as a matter of course. We can’t honestly see that there is really so much at stake for Disney, which is a massive harvester of public-domain folk tales written before the concept of copyright was devised: the public mind has long since forgotten that Mickey Mouse is supposed to be a character in cartoons rather than a pure symbol of obnoxious cultural imperialism.
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