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[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 46 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Disney is not going to lobby to stop this because they can use trademark law to protect the mouse.

[–] Mellibird@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

And they've already transitioned to using the Steamboat Willie model for the opening of their new movies as part of their trademark. As soon as I saw that happening I knew it wouldn't matter that the copyrights to it would finally go away because Disney found a new way around it with the trademarking.

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