[Wikimedia-l] Study: Nobody cares about your copyright

[Amory Meltzer]

Less Mickey Mouse, more Sonny Bono.  Beloved cartoon characters from
everyone's childhood are harder to campaign against than one of Cher's
ex-husbands.

~A


On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 11:31 PM, John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> If we want to have an extra impact, I think we should campaign to
> redefine January 1 as (Anti-)Mickey Mouse Day, and promote it as the
> day that Mickey Mouse Act / Disney has prevented the commons from
> being enriched.  We could list all of the works which would be public
> domain in the US if Mickey Mouse had never existed.
>
> --
> John Vandenberg