CORRECTION: Walt Disney Already Public Domain Outside The United States

Here is the correction and the big deal happening, the Walt Disney Company is facing copyright expungement in the United States for copyright abuse / misuse.

In most countries outside the United States specifically in Asia where they have no American entertainment Walt Disney himself his main creations have entered the public domain.

The United States has different laws than other countries.

It will be another fifteen years before Walt Disney main characters (Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Winnie The Pooh etc.) enter the public domain - his main list with the Walt Disney name one.

 

Other creations at Disney Company by different creators are still under copyright, the new ones like Toy Story but they have already lost the original characters outside the United States.

On the internet this remains mostly unpublished because they running the American model, other countries already know you can print the main Disney characters and stories freely.

So they are just not telling anyone.

The United States differentiates itself internally from other countries by having different copyright laws, meaning the works enter the public domain twenty years later after the author / creator's death.

That means in the United States they can still own the copyright for another fifteen years but in places like Asia and other countries they will NO LONGER carry the Disney characters because they can just print their own now leaving Walt Disney company worthless outside the United States because they are free material there and have lost the entire Asia market.

Now they can only make money on the character inside the United States only for fifteen more years.

Why would overseas markets specifically Asia buy from Disney when they can make their own leaving them broke internationallly.

Disney Company in an attempt to lengthen their copyrights invaded England and Australlia's laws by backing political candidates to pass new copyright laws in those two countries to line up with the United States model.

This as far as I know has been unchallenged.

Disney attempting to enforce United States copyright laws on England and Australia to protect their markets there is illegal, to try and make an outside country comply with United States internal copyright law and they have been expunged in the United States for international copyright misuse.

However, as far as I know this has not gone to the courts yet.

When  challenged in England and Australia they will lose and their copyrights will be expunged in the United States courts for international misuse.

Meaning that all Disney creations are now public domain but this has not cleared the courts yet but you can now print Walt Disney main creations from himself is most places outside the United States.

The confusion is that some later creations may have been by second or other authors but this does not apply to the original Disney creations.

Update: Copyright law change under this "Mickey Mouse Protection Act" which was copyright right misuse did not include Disney in Australia as it was not retroactive, only works after 2004.

However the European Union had retroactive dated works and pulled them from public domain, the UK has since announced they are pulling out of the European Union to be more in line with other countries in the British Commonwealth, under legal challenge if someone wants to print the material in England the copyright changes will not hold up because of the misuse of the applications by the purposed lawmakers.  

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