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The video received some media notoriety for being the first Steamboat Willie-video to receive and survive a copyright-claim from The Walt Disney Company. On January 6, YouTube revoked the copyright-claim from Disney. [12] [13] [14] January 4, 2024 One Eyed Bastard: Music video The fourth single of Green Day's fourteenth studio album, Saviors.
Accordingly, copyright protection did not prevail. The holding in Warner Bros. case came to be known as the Sam Spade Test; this approach does not allow for copyright protection if the character is a “mere chessman in the game of storytelling.” On the other hand, if the character is central to the story, then it will be copyrightable.
Other famous characters' original iterations such as A. A. Milne's Tigger and J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan also entered the public domain. Notable films such as Charlie Chaplin 's The Circus and Harold Lloyd 's Speedy and notable literature such as Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence also entered the public domain.
After decades of lobbying Congress to extend copyright protection on "Steamboat Willie," the statutory limit expired at the start of this year on Disney's icon.
Woodall initially sued Disney last year but a California court ruled in November that his filing had come too late and dismissed it. The release of Moana 2 allowed the animator to sue the ...
All U.S.-based productions made prior to 1930, including much of the Colonel Heeza Liar, Felix the Cat, Mutt and Jeff, Krazy Kat and Winsor McCay libraries, along with the earliest Walt Disney productions including Laugh-O-Gram Studio, Alice Comedies and Steamboat Willie.
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The Walt Disney Company, 11-56441 (9th Cir. 2012), is a United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit case in which the Court evaluated whether defendants Pixar, The Walt Disney Company, Disney Enterprises, Inc. and Walt Disney Pictures infringed on Jake Mandeville-Anthony's copyrighted works.