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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That is not something I do.
Only respond to your drivel, which I will not do anymore. Good day
Lol!
This should be done generally, not just to Disney. Old movies, books, TV shows should have copyrights that expire.
The minimum length of copyright is subject to treaty I believe.
“and retroactively implement this change on companies, “ -— Is that even in the spirit of Constitution? I know ex-post facto laws in the founding document are referring to criminal laws, but the principal should be followed in other law.
Yes. The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works. The actual protections are subject to national laws of the country.
I’m not certain that ‘ex post facto’ only applies to criminal law.
Go after the groomers!
56 years is still insane. But it’s a start. Really 20 to start and renewable with quantitative changes on reissue. Like the rest of the world.
IMHO, this is a good thing. Copyrights were always meant to expire into the public domain. Under current law, they are entirely too long. Heck, 30 or 40 years should be plenty.
Copyright used to have to be renewed. Now they are at a flat 95 years. However, anything that did not get renewed when it was required is in the public domain.
Should have been done a LONG time ago. It’s a travesty that they changed the copyright laws for this one massive corporation. No more favors for Groomer, Inc.
With the Republican Party the check is always in the mail but it somehow never gets to you
Yes. I confuse copyright with patent law. I think patents currently last 20 years... used to be less... 7 or 9 years..
Okay, fair enough.
What about FAA TFRs for all the other 500,000 US Businesses?
Among other things I am disturbed to learn of special tax
Privileges and copywrite stuff. One law for everybody please.
I don’t mind enterprise zones or similar where all can fry to access. But this is Disney only, what the heck.
It’s not Disney only, but it was written in such a way that Disney gets a lot of benefits.
Mainly a 20+ year period when nothing fell into the public Domain.
Are you saying there should be flyover restrictions covering all businesses?
Thank God for that.
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