Pooh & Bambi books going Public Domain Next year!

[gaastra]

Horror. Always crappy horror. Can't someone have talent and make a fun animated fantasy movie? Nope. Cheap crappy horror.

Guess they were right. There is no talent in hollywood left.

We get mickey mouse vs pooh now.

https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/381 ... the-shark/

[Ben]

Blah…

[Dacey]

Ugh. He looks so ugly. It’s like one of those bargain bin knock-offs had a budget.

https://deadline.com/2024/06/winnie-the ... 79993/amp/

[Ben]

Maybe not so much "ugly" as "plain"…?

And he looks closer to Disney's Winnie than AA Milne/Ernest Sheperd.

One thing's for certain: we are certainly going to get a lot of Pooh over the next few years…

[gaastra]

More mickey cartoons go pd including mickeys talking short karnival kid.

Update on pluto. Looks like his first appearance counts for next year so no crappy pluto horror movies thill 2026. Darn.

Buck rogers has been in pd but not his first name buck. It will be now.

Disneys The Skeleton Dance will be pd.

Song singing in the rain will be pd.

Another marx bros movie will be pd.

Tintin going pd. Wow. Not one talked about that one.


https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2025/

E. C. Segar, Popeye (in “Gobs of Work” from the Thimble Theatre comic strip)
Hergé (Georges Remi), Tintin (in “Les Aventures de Tintin” from the magazine Le Petit Vingtième)
In past years we have celebrated an exciting cast of public domain characters: the original Mickey Mouse and Winnie-the-Pooh, and the final iterations of Sherlock Holmes from Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories. In 2025 copyright expires over more aspects of Mickey from his 1929 incarnations, along with the initial versions of Popeye and Tintin. As with Pooh and Mickey, it is the original versions of Popeye and Tintin that are public domain. While Popeye 1.0 had superhuman capabilities, he did not derive his strength from eating spinach until 1932. Conversely, Olive Oyl dates from 1919 and has long been in the public domain. (Before Popeye, her boyfriend was named Ham Gravy).

The character Buck Rogers first appeared in 1929 and is public domain in 2025, but technically the futuristic space hero has already been copyright-free for decades, despite claims that he was still copyrighted. This is because the copyright registration for the Buck Rogers comic strip was not renewed, so that its copyright expired after 28 years. Also, the original version of the character was actually introduced in a novella as “Anthony Rogers” in 1928; that character has long been public domain as well.

[Ben]