Why Disney's Most Iconic Character is entering the Public Domain (Lawyer Explains)
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Jake explains why after 95 years, the copyright in Mickey Mouse is entering the public domain and why Disney is going to do nothing about it.
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Harvard Research Paper: https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/42004051/KAMBOJ-DOCUMENT-2018.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Saving Mickey Research Paper: https://scholarship.shu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1439&context=student_scholarship
Legal Blog: https://blog.ipleaders.in/copyright-trademark-laws-underlying-disneys-characters-insight/
Legal Blog: https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/481/1191/2397442/
Landau Research Paper: https://jipel.law.nyu.edu/of-mouse-and-men-will-mickey-mouse-live-forever/#_ftn11
Acquisitions by Disney: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Disney
NY Times Article: https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/01/business/media-business-merger-walt-disney-acquire-abc-19-billion-deal-build-giant-for.html
Deviant Art Timeline: https://www.deviantart.com/qbatgirlq/art/Infographic-Mickey-Mouse-through-the-years-766332123
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Chapters ►
00:00 Disney is losing Mickey?!
00:26 Why copyrights? In simple terms
01:39 Steamboat Willie, the OG Mickey
02:31 How do you lose a copyright?
03:29 How Mickey got 95 years of copyright protection
05:04 The Big Mouse lobby
07:12 Disney's one big mistake
08:54 Why Disney isn't doing anything this time
12:40 Disney the Behemoth
13:53 That whole Trademark thing
14:24 Where we go from here