A lengthy — if occasionally cloying — article on Disney’s ongoing legal troubles over rights and royalties re Pooh Bear.
Heffalumps and woozles indeed!
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Winnie-the-Pooh and the Prickly Lawsuit
A lengthy — if occasionally cloying — article on Disney’s ongoing legal troubles over rights and royalties re Pooh Bear. Heffalumps and woozles indeed!…
Phooey. A pox on both their houses. If Congress hadn’t extended the copyright three times in the 20th century, the Winnie the Pooh books would all be in the public domain by now. (Check out this dated bit of agitprop from 1995 and scroll down to “Pooh”.) Free Winnie!
Phooey. A pox on both their houses. If Congress hadn’t extended the copyright three times in the 20th century, the Winnie the Pooh books would all be in the public domain by now. (Check out this dated bit of agitprop from 1995 and scroll down to “Pooh”.) Free Winnie!
The incremental copyright-to-perpetuity is a scandal foisted upon us by the folks raking in the dough from said IP, a small fraction of which they pass on to their pet legislators (mutter mutter mutter).