Posted on 08/31/2022 9:41:48 PM PDT by DallasBiff
So what exactly happened to Christopher Robbin to elicit such madness? "Pooh and Piglet experience a drastic drop in food as Christopher grew up and over the years became increasingly hungry and feral," Rhys Frake-Waterfield explained. "They had to resort to eating Eeyore and then Christopher returns with his wife to introduce her to his old friends, and when that happens they get enraged when they see him, and all of their hatred that they've built up over the years unleashes and they go on this rampage."
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At least Eeyore is out of his misery.
If copyrights were shorter then, yes, we might get ridiculous stuff like this, but we might also have gotten better Star Trek TV shows and movies, and better Star Wars sequels.
Winnie the Pooh was not originally a Disney work. It is now in the public domain.
Disney can copyright their own works and depictions of him and the characters but not the characters themselves.
Disney can ask to change copyright law to extend the period yet again. Certainly, they want to. But I don’t think they’ll get it this time, and they know it. So they haven’t bothered.
The late head of the MPAA, Jack Valenti, famously said regarding copyright protection, "We have friends on both sides of the aisle."
It's true. Sonny Bono was a Republican.
And the Big Studios, Record Companies, Publishers spread a lot of money around, to both parties, whenever copyright issues are considered in Congress. Really, they're rarely even debated. Both parties have historically done Big Media's bidding.
Even so, I don't think Big Media will get yet another copyright extension. But there won't be any rollbacks.
I just want to make a Superman comic in ten years or so.
Pooh has a gun with him, to keep the Hephalumps and woozzles out. He is strongly in favor of the right to arm bears.
Unless EEyore raided Pooh's honeypot.
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