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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.
Characters such as Mickey Mouse have been held to have acquired such a secondary meaning and are thus protected under trademark law. [29] Right to Publicity: This right traces its origins in the tort of privacy and is the right to prevent others from commercially exploiting one's name and likeness.
For example, the use of Mickey Mouse's name or likeness may serve to identify a particular book or toy as originating from Disney. One way to establish that a mark acts as a distinctive source identifier is to establish that the relevant purchasing public has developed a strong association between the mark and its originating source. [ 16 ]
The extended copyright terms didn't just stop Mickey and Minnie Mouse from entering the public domain. It also stopped any work of fiction from losing its copyright from 1999 to 2019.
Disney will still have ways to protect Mickey Mouse after Jan. 1. The company will retain copyrights in the character’s more modern versions for a few more years.
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The following is a list of films and other media in which Mickey Mouse has appeared, only featuring projects either created or licensed by The Walt Disney Company, the originators and trademark holder of the character, and not any fair use-protected parody content, content made by other studios and artists following the character's entry into the public domain or parody content that has ...
Mickey Mouse will appear in non-Disney works after copyright protection over the character expired, putting the character in the public domain.