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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Look up Steamboat Willie. I think that you will find that you are mistaken.
The original 14 years plus 14 years seems about right to me. It's a pretty rare work that makes significant money past that point. However, my point is more that the value to the public should be as important as the value to the author when it comes to copyright.
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Ok we were thinking 2 different things.
I was thinking the princesses.
Anyone can use Cinderella, but her description cannot look anything like the Disney version.
Also Steamboat Willie is a film not a book and I thought they had different copyrights and I do believe the Mouse is trademarked as well as copyrighted.
And if I remember correctly, Walt Disney has only been gone 50 years.