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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jasper" data-source="post: 88662" data-attributes="member: 277">mickey mouse is not in the public domain.A guy name Walt created a company called Disney.Walt and his workers created a character named Mickey.Copyright laws apply to the life of the creator aka the corporation plus either 20 years or 17 years. I have not heard that Disney corp had died.I create my super squire stories for the love of creating and sharing them friends.I would be angry if someone would start printing them for a profit.lets take the Dark Dungeons parody which floats around. I think the creator is on thin ice. Grant he can use some parts for parody and far use. The parody uses all the publication. Of course a smart lawyer would say drop 2 or more frames.An actor/celebrity has a right to how his image is  use. Can you see the EGG getting bad if someone post his face to nude model.Napster was stealing property. It was outside the fair use laws.Don do you think it will be okay if I scanned all the core books in to a web page and charged for access?Does the average person make music which is good enough to keep? Or do you forget because it is just average.Record companies pay for advertising,recording studio, the performers, etc, so everyone knows who Weird Al is.Today Weirld Al is able to cut his own songs and place on MP3 etc but would we care if we never heard of Weird Al before hand. Or would we have to go thru 1000 sites to find that one musicain who we enjoy.... A work of art generated for the love                         of it will be better than one generated for the love of money 9 times out of 10...Okay send me some of your art work for free.9 out 10 things created are not saleable. I would not pay and don't pay for the art I see done by anybody. If I going to buy artwork I want to be good because I say it is not because Mr. Artist thinks it a thing of love and beauty. ...infinite resources... gee not everyone has access to a computer.gee mass production means more sells in shorter time. Is this why my local car dealers try to dump their stock before the new car year?Some of those corporations were put together by the creators to protect their works.Oh Shakespeare and other pre copyright laws are not totally free from copyright. Which means I do shakespeare but unless I translate my self I have to pay the publishing company for the play. Since their version of the play.My wife is trying to find different versions Hamlet to see what was cut and drop through the ages. Anyone know where I can get a copy of the Folios?fan sites are pass over at whim of the creator of copyright material.</blockquote>

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