Exactly, we might not have wealth, or support, or opportunity, or capacity, or willingness, or hope… but we have been imbued with the belligerence of life, so that won’t stop us!
When the ball drops in Times Square, I’m going to yell “Steamboat Willie’s in the public domain (in the U.S. at least)” instead of “Happy New Year.”
Yes Disney is using clips from Steamboat Willie at the beginning of all movies and such to try to establish a case for trademark protections (again at least in the U.S.), but it’s still a bit of a victory.
They use a different version of it though, while based on the original they don’t only use it. You can’t claim only part of a intellectual work. That’s why Winnie the pooh in blood and honey is allowed, because its different from the Disney verison
So you basically just can’t use the character in the exact same way? How far does that go though? What if I made a Winnie the Pooh show that’s exactly the same but instead of Christopher Robbins it’s Kristoffer Robkins?
How close does it have to be? Is any shirt not allowed? Would a red tank top be OK? Or maybe put him in a maroon shirt? What if he wears a red shirt with a white collar? Feels like splitting hairs, but there IS a line somewhere.
This is Disney we talk about so getting sued is probably expected, they will explain in court how your character ripped of theirs, you defend. Court decides.
If you can point to a non Disney older source where these same details are present you have a likely win.
If there is a Christopher Robbins in the original you can use the name but if there is not it then having roughly the same letters or sound will likely be a loss.
Of course this more assumed law theory of not a layer. Some rich dudes can just trademark the name of fruit, a basic word or even a single letter and we just let them.
Thinking of “fake Winnie Poohs”, I was gaslit by my parents into thinking that the Soviet version of Winnie the Pooh I grew up watching was the OG and that the yellow bear in a red shirt was derivative of it. I couldn’t believe it when I found out that the Soviet version was the “fake” lol
I’m not sure I fully understand your statement here.
(For purpuoses of this conversation, I’ll be limiting my comments to U.S. law. I can’t say I’m any expert on that, even, but as little as I know about U.S. law, I know far less about any other country’s law. IANAL. Not legal advice.)
I’m referring to this intro sequence that they’ve started adding at the beginning of the significant majority of Disney movies and TV shows. (I don’t think they add it to Marvel or Star Wars things, for instance. Only to more explicitly Disney-branded ones.) It’s probably restored, but it’s the clip from the original Steamboat Willie short.
When you say “you can’t claim only part of an intellectual work” I assume you’re referring to copyright. But what I’m saying is that Disney has finally accepted that they can’t prevent copyright protections on the original Steamboat Willie short from expiring on January 1st 2024 (I don’t think there’s any likelihood of them pulling out a last-minute surprise before then) and are changing their approach. They’re trying to establish a case that they’re using Steamboat Willie (or that clip, at least) as a trademark. (Trademark law and copyright law are different. The rules are different.) I don’t think there’s any reason to suspect that a part/clip of the original Steamboat Willie short couldn’t be used as a trademark.
If someone made/released a film featuring Steamboat-Willie art of the Steamboat-Willie Mickey Mouse on January 2nd 2024, that would be fine from a copyright perspective. (So long as they didn’t do something else that infringed on copyright somewhere.) But it looks like Disney has specifically taken steps to ensure they have an option to come after such a person on trademark grounds.
Now (oh blast, I said I wasn’t going to talk about non-U.S. law, didn’t I? I guess I lied), my understanding about Blood and Honey is that a) it was made in Great Britain and b) the copyright in Great Britain technically hadn’t expired when Blood and Honey was released. Basically, Blood and Honey was (technically) a pirate film. It wasn’t (technically) allowed. (Any more so than would be an unlicensed romcom starring Darth Vader and Jar Jar Binks would be in the U.S. – both characters from works that are fully covered by copyright.) In fact the director of Blood and Honey has said he’s shocked he hasn’t been sued yet and that if Disney did sue, they’d probably have a case.
Now, theoretically, if someone had made a movie in the U.S. with Winnie the Pooh as a character after January 1st 2022, that wouldn’t have infringed any copyright so long as they used only art styles and story elements and such from what Winnie The Pooh works had entered the public domain. Mostly just the original Milne book.
There was a court case where someone made an unlicensed Sherlock Holmes book while some of the original Sherlock books were still in copyright but others had passed out of copyright protections and the courts basically said that you can use any element of Sherlock from the public domain books, but not any elements (such as his dog or his bipolar (which I’m guessing they called “manic depression”) diagnosis) that were from works still covered by copyright. (And it sounds like you understand that last bit. Just wanted to add clarification for other folks that might see this thread.)
If it’s out of a rescue group, its going to be made up anyway. They almost never know the real dog age, just a good guess. They would have to be an abandoned litter, and even that probably has an error margin of a few days to a week depending on how young they are.
YoUlL bE bAcK In A wEeK they said. I was not back, ever, unless you count an occasional Google search for specific info, with account remaining deleted
I stuck around read-only on old.reddit.com after about a month of not using it. Then they changed that on mobile, so then I migrated to Lemmy.
It doesn’t have the same level of content or communities…seems like far fewer “normies” have found their way here. In some ways, that’s nicer. In some ways, it’s worse.
But I don’t think I could go back to Reddit. Lemmy scratches that same itch, and it’ll likely only get bigger as time goes on. Probably not as big as Reddit was though.
I’m kind of okay with Lemmy, or at least this instance of it, not becoming quite as big as reddit. Reddit was just an absolute firehose of bullshit by the end, and you had to wade through so many posts worth of crap, spam, Onlyfans shilling nonsense, reposts, and so on and so forth before you found anything interesting in most of the general subs. While the volume of content on Lemmy is obviously lower, I think the quality of it is noticeably higher. In my experience, anyhow.
People seem to make posts about things because they actually care about whatever it is – or just making Lemmy a more active platform – and not because they want to algorithmically please the hivemind and garner a shitload of upvotes, or have some chump award them gold, or whatever.
I generally stuck to smaller or more focused communities on Reddit, which helped me evade a lot of the BS (but definitely not all of it).
The communities that share the same names are miniscule fractions of the size that they are on Reddit.
It’d be nice to see the activity approach the level of genuine activity that Reddit got. Especially because, as I understand it, Lemmy can’t experience the effects of rate limiting that happened to Reddit.
If I was a real sadist, I’d try to get TempleOS and AmigaOS running. I don’t go to LAN parties anymore, so I wouldn’t get to scare the normies with that.
I use to main Linux. Mint once prehaps will again once I upgrade my shitty graphics card to something which supports ubuntu based distros better. I tend to agree with you on this point although there are plenty of decent people whom use linux. People whom are always happy to give out a helping hand or are welcoming.
What the fuck are you even talking about? You’re not some freedom fighter out in Fallujah. You’re in an online circle jerk about which shiny toy is better. Get a grip.
So removing the iPhone changing lead from the box and or manufactures removing the headphone jack from there smartphones has changed the course of western and eastern societys ah now I get you now you sure you didn’t fail down some stairs and hit your head
Today’s “country” is pop with a southern accent. Long live Lefty Frizzell, Marty Robbins, Roger Miller, Buck Owens, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton, Jeannie C. Reily, Hank Sr, Charlie Pride, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Porter Wagoner…
The list of amazing old country music is long as fuck if given a chance. The list of today’s good country artists? Charley Crockett, Sturgil Simpson, Hank III, John Moreland, American Aquarium. That’s about it, few more I’m forgetting I’m sure.
Honestly, even some of the more pop stuff pre-2000s was good. I do love me some Dwight Yoakam. But I can’t handle any of the stuff they play on country stations these days. All the songs sound the same and are almost all about the same exact things. I wouldn’t be surprised if they just have AI coming up these songs at this point.
For sure, not one of the artists I mentioned from today ever gets radio play (…I think).
Tbf a lot of Lefty Frizzell’s songs are about wantin’ yer lady back and bein’ sorry you done her wrong, as are many other country artists, there’s for sure common themes throuought the various ages, but still, I don’t really mind that when they’re all good as fuck! There’s no twang today, and no soul, no feeling behind the words or chords, that’s my main issue.
For most of my life I haven’t been interested in country music because the contemporary popular stuff tend to be terrible. I’m currently discovering some of the old(er) good stuff for the first time (also watching that Ken Burns documentary a few years ago really ignited my appreciation). Currently (as in this minute as I type this), listening to some old Steven Earle songs for the first time and wondering why I didn’t know about this.
Steve Earle fucking rules. Everyone knows Copperhead Road but tbh like everything else he wrote is even better.
I kinda grew up with Steve Earle, Johnny Cash, and some of the other southern rock-y stuff like The Marshall Tucker band, then I found American Aquarium in like '06, but I really only got into country/western around the time Fallout New Vegas came out, I just couldn’t get enough of it.
Absolutely. Og country has more in common with punk than modern Ford truck month country.
Happy you mentioned modern ones. It ain’t my jam, but people often lament how it’s all shit now when there are almost always artists keeping it alive. Just have to look a little harder.
Today’s POPULAR country is that way. There are still great country artists, they just don’t get as big. Molly Tuttle, Billy Strings, Charlie Crockett, Margo Price, Sarah Jarosz
You’ll see I also mentioned Charley Crockett! I surely know there is some good out there, I mentioned a few others myself. Forgot Billy Strings though thanks. Also I’m both unfortunately and fortunately unfamilliar with Tuttle, Price, and Jarosz, fortunate because now I get to go check out some new (to me) shit I’ll probably like, so thanks!
They’re not straight country. More Americana/roots. There’s a Canadian fellow called Daniel Romano who made some really good straight country, but sadly only a couple albums then went to other genres. His album Come Cry With Me is the closest I’ve found to that 60s/70s sound and lyricism.
And probably still a lot more I haven’t found yet.
You mean the home of the battle of Blair Mountain, union history making, miner rights fighting for, West Virginia!? You probably need to listen to more country music. Or read
I was flabbergasted when I found out you can spell German B (can’t type it without installing additional keyboard) as just “SS”. My teacher didn’t like that. I wonder why 🤔
News are sporadically placed in-between shows, usually at set times, and ads exist just to give a quick overview over whatever will be reported on, which is basically a very summarized version of the reports, which means we’re back at me not being able to escape the news depression vortex.
I know three other married couples, close enough that myself or my wife talks to them at least a few times a week.
Marriage #1 are two people who are playful with each other, and they point out hot people to each other. I think they have been married 15 years.
Marriage #2 are a couple who don’t get along that well, the husband gets jealous if the wife even looks at another person of the male persuasion. Not sure how long they’ve been married, but it’s not long. (Edit: my wife corrected me, the husband in this case gets upset if his wife talks to anyone semi-attractive, regardless of gender. He was apparently convinced that we had a threesome with his wife, but no.)
Marriage #3 are a couple who jokes with each other about it, “haha, I saw you looking at him/her”. They get along pretty well. They’ve been married either 49 or 50 years.
Of course ancedote≠data, and I don’t know everyone, but it seems to me the couple that gets jealous doesn’t have the best time.
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