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First, Disney is not the powerhouse of content it once was - Google, Facebook, Tik-Tok, Twitter, and multiple others have shifted the landscape in terms of who gets to say what. Messing with copyright will get the so-called "Big Tech" involved now, something 1998 didn't have.
Quick Doomscroll Topic of the moment, which I'm just going to bring up in celebration of Public Domain Month (when piles of things go Public Domain).
How, exactly, are they going to extend copyright to protect Mickey Mouse?
Time for a lot of armchair speculation.
Did you know the Internet Archive has over 17,000 emulated Commodore 64 games running? Well, now you do. And the vast majority have screenshots, generated by having a script play the games. Well, a handful got munged over the years, so I'm scrolling through all 17k to fix them.
Many of the panic grabs have textfiles to list out the contents, allowing people to do some basic per-site searching. Hopefully it'll get better. Until then, we keep doing what we do. FTP foreverrrrrrr