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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No, I’m saying that no biz should have them.
And especially woke dizney.
You thinking they should be excepted?
Generally no, but Stadiums and large outdoor events are already covered. I’m good with that.
Isn’t that what Stossel called, Corporatism?
Big companies getting special carve outs from government so they can make all the money and push out all the little guys trying to compete.
Yes,
Patents are only for 17 years.
Maybe copyrights can follow!
Since the current Copyright is 95 years, Public Domain Day 2022 brought every thing from 1926 into the Public Domain.
Pass this bill, or something close to it, then everything written, filmed, recorded, taped, broadcast, etc. prior to 1966 falls into the Public Domain.
No because Mickey Mouse itself is trademarked.
This is about copyright on the cartoons themselves.🤔
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