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Originally Posted by pwalker8
You are way, way over stating the ongoing investment for most properties. While you keep pointing to Disney (which might be the only company that you could make that claim for), for the most part, they don't advertise and invest in the old titles, such as Snow White. As I pointed out earlier, LOTR was mostly fan supported from the initial publishing up through the initial Peter Jackson LOTR movie. The Tolkien estate does pretty much zero advertisement or ongoing investment into the property.
Frankly, if we had a two tier copyright system, one for Disney and one for everyone else, the eternal copyright chant would mostly disappear.
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As I've said a number of times before Disney seems to be doing well enough protecting their rights to Mickey and their other characters using the current trademark laws. Making money off their old films when they enter public domain without breaking trademark laws is going to be an interesting endeavor.
BTW for those who are interested here is the uspto Trademark status page on
Snow White