News Disney Not Renewing Great Movie Ride Sponsorship Deal with TCM ; Attraction to Close

[wedenterprises]

Apologies if this was already covered, but is getting a Mickey attraction into the park linked to the 2019 public domain/copyright expiration issue?

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4086321-fight-mickey-disneys-copyright-problem

 

[RSoxNo1]

Apologies if this was already covered, but is getting a Mickey attraction into the park linked to the 2019 public domain/copyright expiration issue?

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4086321-fight-mickey-disneys-copyright-problem

Martin did imply there was a legal issue surrounding one of the attractions...

 

[PizzaPlanet]

I do hope that the Mickey ride will have some nice AA figures. If not that would be a huge disappointment to me, especially since it's replacing the AA-heavy GMR.

 

[Cesar R M]

Permit filed for DHS called "Project M"

The address on this permit is for the GMR building, although that also includes things like the Buzz and Woody M&G in Pixar Place.

555 Stage Lane - DHS Project M - Package 1 Work

Let the flood of updates commence!

 

[MisterPenguin]

Let the flood of updates commence!

The beginning. Of the end.

 

[BrianLo]

Martin did imply there was a legal issue surrounding one of the attractions...

8 minutes later he implied that this thread would explode when the Mickey ride was announced at D23.

 

[MisterPenguin]

8 minutes later he implied that this thread would explode when the Mickey ride was announced at D23.

Maybe he meant the expo would be filled with hundreds of sheriffs who are going to serve papers to Bob Chapek the moment he announces it!

 

[brb1006]

I do hope that the Mickey ride will have some nice AA figures. If not that would be a huge disappointment to me, especially since it's replacing the AA-heavy GMR.

Please don't end up with the way the AA's at the Little Mermaid ride turned out.

 

[brb1006]

8 minutes later he implied that this thread would explode when the Mickey ride was announced at D23.

I'm looking forward to the reactions in a sadistic way.

 

[brb1006]

The beginning. Of the end.

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Evil Witch = Disney Park executives
Snow White = GMR
Poison Apple = Mickey ride
Forest animals = People who are against the Mickey ride replacing GMR
Dwarfs = WDW Magic members

 

[PorterRedkey]

Prepare for disappointment.

In in addition to the original disappointment that you have already felt by the replacement that should be a new build.

 

[Tom P.]

Apologies if this was already covered, but is getting a Mickey attraction into the park linked to the 2019 public domain/copyright expiration issue?

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4086321-fight-mickey-disneys-copyright-problem

I don't see how. Yes, it's true that some of the early Disney works are scheduled to fall into the public domain beginning in 2019 if Disney can't successfully lobby Congress to extend the length of copyright again. So, for example, it's possible that Steamboat Willie could lose it's copyright protection and be free for anyone to distribute.

But that doesn't mean that the character of Mickey Mouse enters the public domain. Mickey Mouse is a registered trademark of Disney, a very different type of intellectual property. A registered trademark has no fixed expiration date. As long as Disney actively uses and defends its trademarks -- as it very clearly does -- they don't risk losing that protection. And with or without a Mickey update to The Great Movie Ride, there's no chance anyone could accuse Disney of not actively protecting Mickey as a trademark.

Bottom line: If the early copyrights expire, it would allow people to distribute those particular works without compensating Disney. But it would not permit someone to, say, make a brand new film featuring Mickey Mouse or any other Disney character. And I can't see how what happens to The Great Movie Ride would impact any of that.

 

[Tayoboy]

I'm looking forward to the reactions in a sadistic way.

 

[Ryan H. Serowinski]

You know, you all win, Mickey's going to move in the Chinese theater, thanks so much for my support

 

[ᗩLᘿᑕ ✨ ᗩζᗩᗰ]

Anyone wondering if this will be nothing more than PhilharMagic 2.0 darkride edition? I've heard rumors this will have more of a "Mickey and Friends" vibe playing out like a large commercial endorsing Disney Animation's greatest hits with Mickey and Friends popping in an out of famous movie scene vignettes using the hackneyed imagineering goto "Where's Mickey?" plot device. Man I hope not. I'm all for "Mickey at the Movies" a celebration of the big cheese. Here's hoping they get this right.

 

[brb1006]

Anyone here wondering if this will be nothing more than PhilharMagic 2.0 darkride edition? I've heard rumors this will have more of a "Mickey and Friends" vibe playing out like a large commercial endorsing Disney Animation's greatest hits with Mickey and Friends popping in an out of famous movie scene vignettes using the hackneyed imagineering goto "Where's Mickey?" plot device.

Oh please we don't want another Disney attraction where guests have to find another Disney character. We already have "Where's Donald" and "Where's Nemo" both at Epcot.

 

[brb1006]

You know, you all win, Mickey's going to move in the Chinese theater, thanks so much for my support

Wait until D23 only 2 more days left.

 

[ᗩLᘿᑕ ✨ ᗩζᗩᗰ]

Oh please we don't want another Disney attraction where guests have to find another Disney character. We already have "Where's Donald" and "Where's Nemo" both at Epcot.

I know right! I'm in panic mode. They better not! : as he shakes a clenched fist at the imaginary imagineers reading this post:

 

[brb1006]

I know right! I'm in panic mode. They better not, I say! :shaking a clinched fist at imagineers somewhere:

I'm just hoping they go the "Mickey throughout the years" idea. Such as starting from the 1920's and 1930's era straight up to the Band Concert with Classic Mickey then straight up to the 1940's with Fantasia (Sorcerer's Apprentice). After all Mickey's 90th Birthday is next year.

 

[brb1006]