Who will win custody of Felix the Cat? – IOTW Report

Who will win custody of Felix the Cat?

Thanks to the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 (sponsored by Sonny Bono) intellectual property (images, movies, books) created in 1923 and after that were still protected in 1998 have been kept from the public domain, but that all changes next year. More

It’ll be Mickey’s turn in 2024.

35 Comments on Who will win custody of Felix the Cat?

  1. Felix the Cat
    Fritz the Cat
    Garfield the Cat
    Cat in the Hat
    Big Fur the Hat
    The Mad Hatter
    It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
    It’s the end of the world as we know it…

    It’s Friday, Friday
    Gotta get down on Friday
    Everybody’s lookin’ forward to the weekend, weekend
    Friday, Friday
    Gettin’ down on Friday
    Everybody’s lookin’ forward to the weekend… 🙂

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  2. Best cartoon out there.
    With names like Rock Bottom, and the Master Cylinder, I remember fondly my time watching as a youngster, gnawing on fudgesicles
    I still think one day I will build a contraption like the Professor did so when I haul on a rope it kicks me in the ass

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  3. Best cartoon out there.
    With names like Rock Bottom, and the Master Cylinder, I remember fondly my time watching as a youngster, gnawing on fudgesicles
    I still think one day I will build a contraption like the Professor did so when I haul on a rope it kicks me in the ass

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  4. What this means is that movie makers from 1919 and escalating each year will have their work stolen from them.
    That’s like allowing a painting from Van Gogh or a concerto from Mozart to be allowed to be reproduced or changed.
    There is something very wrong to me about that.

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  5. Molan Lave,
    I don’t remember that one, but I DO remember the 1967 Wally Wood (EC Comics) sex/drugs/orgy “Disney” poster. I could have had one, back in the day (sigh). Who knew?

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  6. I had to look it up on Duck duck go to make sure I was right and I was called Mickey vs The Air Pirates by Dan O’Neill an underground cartoonist back in the early 70’s. Needless to say Disney wasn’t happy with him and sued for copyright infringement but Dan O’Neill kept at it and really pissed Disney off. Dan O’Neill was my favorite underground cartoonist with an extremely quirky sense of humor. But outside of underground comics he never got much press or notoriety.

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  7. I New a fellow who had a collection of old radios, and also some spectacular examples of very early electro-mechanical television including a receiver and a camera. He also had a statue of Felix the Cat which he told me was something of a symbol for testing of these early television systems because it had sharp black and white contrast .

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  8. @F4UCorsair September 7, 2018 at 8:23 pm

    > What this means is that movie makers from 1919 and escalating each year will have their work stolen from them.

    I’m Ludwig Van. And I approve this propaganda message.

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