Rightsholders for Hergé asserted this weekend that Tintin’s earliest works haven’t entered the U.S. public domain—despite law that says otherwise. They join a growing list of estates making dubious claims to retain expired copyrights. Up now on Copyright Lately.
https://copyrightlately.com/public-domain-copyright-threats/
https://copyrightlately.com/public-domain-copyright-threats/
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at the time that Steamboat Willie was recognized as going into the public domain, some pundits asserted that Disney would never let anyone use it, that they would throw lawyers at all involved. But I've yet to hear of even a single letter being sent on that.