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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.
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.
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.
Disney has been hit with a copyright lawsuit alleging that the wildly popular Moana franchise was nearly entirely lifted from a decades-old screenplay without the writer's consent.
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.
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 ...
Climate change has been an occasional topic in fictional cinema. [13] Nicholas Barber opined in BBC Culture that Hollywood films seldom feature climate change mechanisms due to the difficulty of tying the topic to individual characters, and due to fears of alienating audiences; instead, impacts of climate change have been more frequently depicted as a consequence of nuclear or geoengineering ...
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