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Posted on 05/10/2022 7:10:50 AM PDT by shadowlands1960
Hawley aims to revoke Disney's 'special privileges' with new legislation.
EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is introducing legislation that would strip the Walt Disney Company of special copyright protections granted to the corporation by Congress, while also limiting the length of new copyrights.
The "Copyright Clause Restoration Act of 2022" would cap the length of copyrights given corporations by Congress to 56 years and retroactively implement this change on companies, including Walt Disney.
"The age of Republican handouts to Big Business is over. Thanks to special copyright protections from Congress, woke corporations like Disney have earned billions while increasingly pandering to woke activists. It’s time to take away Disney’s special privileges and open up a new era of creativity and innovation," Hawley told Fox News Digital in an exclusive statement.
According to Hawley's office, Congress has used an old law, also known as the "Mickey Mouse Protection Act," in order to extend copyrights to corporations for up to 120 years.
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“The age of Republican handouts to Big Business is over.
I guess Hawley isn’t familiar with how much money Kemp gives to the movie industry EVERY year and wants to give a inept EV company.
I was just now thinking, “what happened to the Disney vs. Don’t Say Gay crisis?”
Seems to have gone away all of a sudden.
I don’t understand the issues involved with copyrights apparently expiring after a certain number of years.
Does this mean that Disney’s right to Mickey Mouse and his name and likeness expires after a certain period of time? I guess I thought an owner of such characters and images and company names were indefinite?
Well, as I said, I don’t understand what’s going on with this.
And get rid of the exclusive FAA TFRs over both parks, CA and FL.
No private corporation should have its own no-fly-zones.
Yep, or the billions to chip fabs or in NYS, football stadiums. The statement is laughable, he should say something accurate to increase credibility.
Just treat all Americana and companies the same.
If Disney has special carve outs and concessions - remove them.
Back at you troll.
Copyrights have to be periodically renewed. If not renewed the material becomes public domain.
Troll....that’s me.
Having read far too many of your responses and the responses of others to you, do you ever get the feeling or come to the realization that many think you’re an idiot? If you haven’t, you need to.
In disney's case, yes.
It would make the characters, stories, books, movies, etcc public domain in the same sense as huck fin, tom sawyer, quasimodo, tale of two cities, shakespeare, etc
Original storylines and ideas would become public domain and useable by anyone to create new stories and material for sale. Stories and movies that are still within the timeframe would still be protected.
It doesn’t impact trademarks which are often confused with copyrights.
Similar to patents intent was to provide for a period of profit for the creator/inventor of the published work: music, scripts, books, character creations, art, etc - however, that period was NEVER supposed to be indefinite and Congress has abused the public trust for a long time in this regard. Our culture is OURS and a return to an appropriately limited timeframe is the right thing to do.
Impacts much more then just Disney by the way. Superman, music, plays, all sorts of movies, etc
Having read plenty of your posts and responses, I KNOW you are an idiotic troll of very little intelligence.
Why do you read them?
Because you post the replies to me?
Duh.
Disney claims it’s for safety concerns . . . really, they don’t want advertisers flying over the park with offers
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