Path: ...!news-out.netnews.com!postmaster.netnews.com!us1.netnews.com!not-for-mail
X-Trace: DXC=;`HfZl:9HLiQmXLb:2Rl8bHWonT5<]0TmdjI?Uho:Xek=aHS]UU?ATo53l<=V;Fkab91iS:Vg@`VdIYV<IoYed[afoNKm7c@>0i3h?ZmHT^N`b5;T>0j>i^lg
X-Complaints-To: support@blocknews.net
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2025 22:41:22 -0500
MIME-Version: 1.0
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101
 Thunderbird/91.13.1
Subject: Re: Popeye and Tintin
Content-Language: en-US
Newsgroups: misc.news.internet.discuss
References: <vl70sr$3h4o0$2@dont-email.me>
From: Michael Trew <michael.trew@att.net>
In-Reply-To: <vl70sr$3h4o0$2@dont-email.me>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Lines: 12
Message-ID: <677ca217$9$3827$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1
X-Trace: 1736221207 reader.netnews.com 3827 127.0.0.1:34479
Bytes: 1467

On 1/2/2025 4:36 PM, JAB wrote:
> Popeye and Tintin are now in the public domain
> 
> It's a new year, and that means more works are headed to the public
> domain. This year, thousands of copyrighted works created in 1929,
> including the earliest versions of Popeye and the Belgian comic book
> character Tintin, are now free to reuse and repurpose in the US.
> 

Hasn't Disney been bribing the government for years to keep Mickey Mouse 
trademarked and out of public domain for longer than he's supposed to be?