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O'Reilly Commits to Short Copyright Durations

Posted by michael on from the money-mouth dept.

Sam King writes "I found the following link on the lisnews.com site: O'Reilly Adopts 1790 Copyright Durations. A small but encouraging step taken by a publisher." We should provide direct links to O'Reilly's announcement and the Founder's Copyright website.

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  1. Re:Interesting but... by SoftCoreHonesty · · Score: 5, Informative

    You are confusing copyright and trademarks. Disney holds several trademarks on Mickey Mouse and his likeness. Trademarks can be renewed forever.

    The copyrights for Steamboat Willy are for the screenplay and the actual movie only. These copyrights should have run out long ago.

    Even if "Steamboat Willy" becomes public domain people would still have to pay Disney to use Mickey Mouse.