Less than three days after Mickey Mouse enters public domain, a terrible horror movie is already being made

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Originally published at: Less than three days after Mickey Mouse enters public domain, a terrible horror movie is already being made - Boing Boing

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This looks awful. I love it.

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To tell the truth I expected the pornos to be first.

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So long as it’s not this one…

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I’m a furry, trust me, we had that stuff long before it even exited copyright and entered the public domain.

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Given how people work, I’m gonna guess the first porn of Mickey was somewhere around 1928.

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Probably:

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It occurs to me that there must have been movies in which a Mickey Mouse reference would have made sense and been meaningful/funny and the writers thought of it, but never happened because of rights issues. Instead we get this, where a Mickey reference gets shoehorned into a cheesy cheap movie, simply because they can.

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I agree with both of you. And we mustn’t forget the legendary Air Pirates comics which tried to bust the copyright barrier back in 1971. All that stuff was illegal to one extent or another. I was talking about legal use of the newly-public domain Mickey. I really thought Mouse porn would be first off the starting blocks.

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What legislative efforts are being done to bring copyright back to Berne Convention standards? Works really need to come into public domain within living memory of those who were present at first release, and when high digital and physical copies can be archived.

What are our chances of success?

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It was kind of amusing when they did this to Winnie the Pooh but now it’s just lazy.

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I’d be willing to bet that most of these were in production before it went public. They were just waiting for it to become legal before announcing.

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I saw it explained somewhere as follows. It’s still illegal to make Mouse content that one might mistake for coming from Disney. So yes you can use Mickey Mouse but you need an ironclad argument that says that noone would think you’re Disney. And the horror movies are probably good that way. Doesn’t explain why the porn is slower, though.

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