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Originally Posted by leebase
Disney's company is still putting huge work on Mickey Mouse. Nobody is watching the original Steamboat Willy cartoons. They are going to Disneyworld and buying Mickey Mouse ears and shirts etc. Just like the businesses Rockerfeller started.
And it’s the value of those ongoing characters today that people would want to reap the rewards from. If Mickey Mouse had stopped at Steamboat Willy, nobody would be interested as there would be no demand.
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...and even if Mickey had fallen into the public domain, they could *still* be selling those ears and shirts etc. All of the various Disney properties would still exist, and people would still be flocking to them every single day of the year.
Allowing IP to fall into the public domain doesn't mean that the original creator can't keep making money off of it, it just means that they no longer have an *exclusive* right to it.
Shari