For the month of November, our guest for the Technicast is our very own Ashlie Carlson. Ashlie is a managing editor here at Technica Editorial. A few months ago, Ashlie went to the ISMTE North America Conference and one of the presentations she listened in on was a copyright boot camp discussing copyright and permission issues. She came by and talked to us about a few of the things that were discussed in that boot camp.
A Crash Course on the Public Domain Care of Mickey Mouse
After 95 years of perhaps the strictest copyright protection this side of bulletproof glass, Mickey Mouse is now entering the public domain – sort of. The original “Steamboat Willy” version of Walt Disney’s crown jewel of intellectual property officially enters the...