I read a article in the jacksonville business journal about the battle over the rights to winnie the pooh and also in the article is about disney trying to have congress pass a law extending for another 20yrs their exclusive rights to use Mickey Mouse. According to the article in 2004 disney's right to Mickey Mouse expire in to public domain so anybody could use Mickey Mouse without paying disney. The article stated disney could lose 4 Billion over this as well as lsoing billions more if they lose the pooh lawsuit. What are your thoughts about disney losing exclusive rights to Mickey Mouse and the damage it could cause the company.
I think it would be a terrible loss and could hurt their (mickey mouse) icon status. I also feel that if someboody creates something they should have sole rights to it unless they sell them but apparently you only keep sole copyrights for 75 yrs in current law.
What do you think???
I think it would be a terrible loss and could hurt their (mickey mouse) icon status. I also feel that if someboody creates something they should have sole rights to it unless they sell them but apparently you only keep sole copyrights for 75 yrs in current law.
What do you think???