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The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora

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236 points inesranzo | 1 comments | 11 Dec 25 14:05 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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gekoxyz ◴[11 Dec 25 14:55 UTC] No.46232125[source]▶
I never thought this could happen, especially after the "Ghibli scandal". OpenAI has pulled a majestic business move. They got to allow people to generate Disney characters without issue AND will give 1 billion dollars to OpenAI?

Now the internet will be flooded by Disney character's videos, and since they don't have to pretend they didn't train on their intellectual property anymore I'm really curious to see where this will bring us.

We should rethink copyright btw.

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Hamuko ◴[11 Dec 25 14:58 UTC] No.46232167[source]▶
>Now the internet will be flooded by Disney character's videos

How is Disney okay with this anyway? They've sent their lawyers after daycare centers who dared to paint a picture of a Disney character on their walls. Why are they suddenly going to ignore me prompting a video of Winnie the Pooh hitting the bong?

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noosphr ◴[11 Dec 25 22:35 UTC] No.46238261{3}[source]▶
Dysneys characters are entering the public domain, they can either cash out now or not at all.

Mickey mouse is now copyright free, pluto is in two weeks, then pretty much the whole roster by 2030 https://michelsonip.com/news/disney-characters-in-the-public...

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1. godelski ◴[12 Dec 25 03:27 UTC] No.46240558{4}[source]▶

  > Mickey mouse is now copyright free
Not true.

Scroll down on this page[0] and you'll see the different Mickeys and most of them are not under copyright. You got Steamboat Whillie + gloves but no Fantasia Mickey or later. Definitely no red-pants version.

Unsurprisingly Disney knows what they're doing and they have 95 years to modify a character's looks (and how the public imagines that character) before it enters public domain.

  > pluto is in two weeks
Not the Pluto you're thinking of...[1]

[0] https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/mickey/

[1] https://www.disneydining.com/disney-copyright-loss-pluto-202...