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Disney Sued After Enforcing Rights to Mickey Mouse in the Public Domain (www.hollywoodreporter.com)

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[–] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Shoutout to when John Oliver jumped the gun on Mickey's copyright expiring, by doing a horrendously illegal and offensive unauthorized Mickey Mouse and then daring Disney to sue them.

"Because fuck him, that's why"

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

~~I'm trying to even remember when Nintendo sued someone who might actually be able to defend themselves in court and not just regular people and small, independent developers since they lost against Galoob over the GameGenie.~~

Why the fuck am I thinking about Nintendo? lol