Hey You Can Copy..Right??

I learned many things during our copyright presentation such as: copyright is the authors life plus 75 years, founders copyright is 14 years, and that education usually does not have to pay for copy written material as long as they use it sporadically.

To me the most interesting thing that we learned about copy right was that of the Sonny Bono Act. This act extended the copyright of many things but what I would like to talk about is how it extended the copy right on Disney characters.

The thought of passing legislation that helps extend the Disney characters is far fetched. I mean what makes Disney have so special that the characters should be extended in copyright. It is not fair to others who have not had this opportunity to extend the copyright on their material. The Disney characters are no more important to you and I as Aquaman or Superman. These comic book characters would never get the attention as Disney did.

I firmly stand by this Act for I personally believe that these Disney characters have influenced the life of many children all over the world. The characters are much more distinct than most any film industries characters. I mean these characters not only have movies, but Disney has cartoons also. Disney was the innovator for the children's world of TV entertainment. For this Disney characters should get the perks. I just can not picture any Disney character being used by other companies for advertising or other reasons. Disney was the new era and for that their characters should be saved!