Hello frens,

As a great opponent of any form of IP, I have been following the event of Disney’s Steamboat Willie entering the public domain with great amusement. The incidents where creators have been falsely demonetized on youtube for rightfully using this film is further underpinned by Disney’s decades-long shameless practices. The linked article sums it up quite well I think.

  • GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    PNG exists because GIF was patented. The lack of gifs for so long was directly because of the royalty costs.

    That’s one of many examples where science and culture were stifled because of excessive IP laws.