"As I understand it, Disney spend an awful lot of lobbying money keeping Mickey Mouse in copyright, so I suspect unless a large cheque is included in the letter, this appeal will fall on deaf ears."
Actually Disney does a GREAT DEAL MORE than that. Mickey and that whole cast of characters Walt & co. cooked up many, many decades ago would have gone off copywrite multiple times already except that the Disney corporation employs lots and lots of highly compensated lawyers and lobbyists to see to it that Congress keeps extending the number of years copywrite materials are owned before going into "the public space." It's become like a never ending lease. Tryng googling "Lessig" and read his essays on the public commens to understand how your access to all manner of things -- and not just entertainment such as games and art -- is being relentlessly eroded by the growing power of corporate entitites over what used to be a matter of routine public access after 7 years...now 70 and climbing "to INFINITY AND BEYOND." Oh, sorry, that's Buzz Lightyear...Pixar owns him I think...for now at least...but someday they'll be one big company and there will be no copywrite because they will own everything in perpetuity. Ask yourself a question. Why would Disney will EVER allow the artwork of Mickey Mouse to lapse if they can avoid it by filling the coffers of congressmen? Now, the law says it should lapse...but Walt's desciples just keep on moving that cheese further and further away. That's why my poor kid had to go to Legoland instead... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
