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[–] craktok@lemmy.world -3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Hopefully something will be done to extend the copyright of Superman and James Bond. I’d hate for them to be public domain.

[–] Rooty@lemmy.world 14 points 22 hours ago

Put Steamboat Willie into Cuphead, cowards.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 77 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Hey, what's that middle door? I don't think Trogdor is becoming public domain anytime soon

[–] Burninator05@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The public is my domain to burninate! 🔥

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 26 points 1 day ago

Superman methinks

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

I was just at the store and walked by a display of flower seeds where I happened to notice one called "ferry-mouse" and I immediately thought of Steamboat Willie. Now I have the Baader-Meinhof cosmic algorithm showing me new content similar to what I was thinking about recently.

This is proof that life is just a simulation.

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] movies@lemmy.world 78 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The glove joke is that only Steamboat Willie is in the public domain. Wearing the gloves makes him Mickey Mouse, which is why he should absolutely not wear them as his copyright hasn’t expired.

The other doors look like Donald Duck, Superman, and I guess James Bond? I assume their copyright expirations are coming soon—in that order.

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Similar to Micky not wearing gloves, Superman wouldn't be able to fly, be vulnerable to kryptonite, wouldn't have heat vision, freeze breath, or the fortress of solitude. Pretty much all the iconic villains would be off limits too.

[–] KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yup, not at first. Mickey's gloves are actually a great example as they come into public domain this year as the first film where he wears those comes up next. (IIRC, INAL, don't go violating copyright law based on a comment on the interwebs.)

[–] moody@lemmings.world 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

don’t go violating copyright law based on a comment on the interwebs

Who's gonna stop me?

[–] ivanovsky@lemm.ee 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Mickey Mouse himself. I heard he's like a ruthless mafia boss.

[–] KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Nooooooo!!!! My comment was strictly meant for entertainment! This was not legal advice!

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

Aaaahhhhhh thanks. Yes I totally forgot that Steamboat Willie was PD now, and about wearing the gloves. Oh well!

[–] Acamon@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I don't really either. Mickey mouse is now PD, and I assume the other guy (no idea who he is) is too? And daffy duck, someone else and James bond will also become PD soon. Mickey with gloves is still copyrighted, so he can't wear the gloves.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The other guy is the main character of the artist’s comic. He’s just visiting the land of public domain.

Or he is directly publishing his comics into the PD

[–] Burninator05@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wonder if other hand based clothing items are ok. White gloves clearly aren't but what about different colored gloves? What about gauntlets? Inquiring minds want to know how far we can push this before legally we're in the wrong.

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Inquiring minds want to know how far we can push this before legally we’re in the wrong.

As long as it's parody like this comic, then you can do pretty much whatever you want. Like how Family Guy can reference 200 random things per episode. It's only becomes illegal when it's serious in nature, like fan made Star Trek stuff. Because it too closely resembles the actual show. If they could monetize stuff like that, they could theoretically become a Star Trek competitor.

[–] Bgugi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Copyright law only really holds major rights holders accountable to each other. It doesn't matter if you're 100% in the right, if you piss off a rights holder enough they will crush you.

See also CNN vs Canadian United Media.

[–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Sehr geehrter Herr Noerdman,

gemäß des Übereinkommens zwischen dem Deutschen Reich und den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika über den gegenseitigen Schutz der Urheberrechte vom 15. Januar 1892 erfahren US-amerikanische Werke die Inländerbehandlung in Deutschland. Folglich erlischt deren Urheberrecht nicht bereits 95 Jahre nach Erschaffung, sondern erst 70 Jahre nach Tod des am längsten lebenden Urhebers (§65 UrhG).

Da Ub Iwerks, zweiter Regisseur und Urheber von „Steamboat Willie“, am 7. Juli 1971 verstarb, erlischt das Urheberrecht für dieses Werk in Deutschland erst am 1. Januar 2042.

Bitte entfernen Sie diesen Beitrag somit umgehend, anderweitig können rechtliche Konsequenzen folgen.

GaLiGrü
Ihre The Walt Disney Company Germany GmbH

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago

Hans, hol the Flammenwerfer!

[–] Tja@programming.dev 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Tja@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago
[–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 6 points 1 day ago

Maxh doch nicht die Arbeit der Anwälte von den Megacorps. Aber trotzdem interessant

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world -2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

When Supes hits the public domain I'm inverting his character by making him MAGA. Fly the rot in everyone's faces.

[–] xtools@programming.dev 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

you just invented Homelander from "The Boys"

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago

Except Homelander is different. You gotta make America feel like America is doing this by actually using their mascot. Also, Homelander didnt do any of those things in the comics, he was framed by Black Noir.

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You're more likely to be sued by the thousands of people that have beaten you to that particular punch at that point.

Amazon would probably be first in line, which is kinda weird if you think about it.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Could you be sued once its public domain? Maybe for the other elements if it was again copyrighted based on those. I get Invincible, but it would feel different with actual superman, and not the one where he landed in Russia.

[–] DadVolante@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Evil Superman has been done to death and it's not interesting or edgy anymore.

It's just dumb.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yeah but it hasn't been done where superman is just deporting all these people using his super speed, taking medicines from the cabinets of single African mothers using his flight. I think it would be effective in showing the effects of csncelling USAID and everything else the administration is doing. Hell, do it in golden age comic style for extra points as trump wants to return to that age but not do anything those presidents did.

[–] RustyShackleford 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So instead of Supply Side Jesus, it'll be Supply Side Superman?

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah,paint the ridiculousness of their actions. Have supply side Jesus come in and thank him at the end just like the classics

[–] RustyShackleford 4 points 22 hours ago

It almost feels like we've come up with a goldmine of an idea for an artist lol.

[–] DadVolante@sh.itjust.works 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Red Son was pretty close.

Evil Superman is boring and done to death.

Evil Batman is much more suitable for the times

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

That would just be Bruce Wayne acting in best interest of the company. But yeah the banality of it sounds like a great Jekyll and Mr Hyde thing.

[–] DadVolante@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Have you read Red Son? Where Superman is born in Soviet Russia, ends up taking it over, and implanting brain chips in citizens in order to make them comply?

It was done 20 years ago. And over and over again people have done evil Superman. It's unbelievably played out. It's boring.

An evil Batman is more than him taking the best interests of the company, and they've actually played with the idea before, though not as much as Clark

One version has him adding drugs to Gotham's water supply to keep crime down. It was okay I guess.

Long story short, I have entirely too many comic books 😅

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Yeah I have. What I meant was something more in line with the golden age comics, to really smack on that MAGA fever dream, and just having supes be classic campy but doing fucked up shit like taking away crates of medicine meant for African children and shit like that. More of an illustration of what our actions would look like if one of those classic american idols carried them out. I feel.like it would paint a stinging picture.