Copyright Term Extension Act
The Copyright Term Extension Act was enacted in 1998, and allowed copyright work lasting for the life of the author plus 50 years, or 75 years for a work of corporate authorship. This act was also referred to as the ‘‘Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act” or the “Mickey Mouse Protection Act.” It was not until 1790 when the very first copyright act was enacted in America. It encouraged the Learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies. (3) It allowed the publishers to have a total of 28 years to claim their own work and use that image as they please to profit.
The Copyright Term Extension Act or, CTEA for short, allowed for artists and authors to write
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(4) Meaning that if someone wanted to reuse or reinvent them they would not be allowed to. So everything that was published before President Clinton signed CTEA into legislation was untouchable. The first Mickey Mouse cartoon, would have fallen into the public domain at the end of 2003. That would have allowed anyone to use Mickey Mouse in their own works. Disney kept requesting for copyright extensions so the public domain would be unable to use the images or videos so they could continue to profit. In my opinion I feel as if Mickey Mouse should always be trade marked because it is the corporations character and should be allowed to use that image how they please. I feel as if nobody should remake or recreate that image because people could purposely mistreat that image how they choose. Disney should continue to profit off that image because they made it. Even after the original creator is dead, the corporations are still entitled to that image. Coca-Cola is always going to be Coca-Cola and Mickey Mouse is always going to be Mickey