unlike how it was in the 90s, Disney no longer has support in the government not as much as it used to. Republicans dont like them because they went back on supporting the dont say gay bill. Also before Isaac Perlmutter was on the board of directors and he was in the inner circle of Trump and he recently got laid off. Corey is right that not only disney but other companies are starting to prefer trademark law to get what they want. Look at ERB Inc, Tarzan is public domain but they still have a lot of control and are the "official" estate for Tarzan stuff. They own all related trademarks.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I expect this will happen to Lord of the Rings. It goes public domain in about 20 years, which isn't that far away. Same amount of time between now and that as there is between now and the Peter Jackson films.

The Tolkien estate might trademark the term "Lord of the Rings" and keep licensing things out. Fans could always come up with an alternate name, like "Silmarillion: War of the One Ring", and we all know what it is.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

thats what is done currently with tarzan, usually its like king of the jungle or lord of the trees which are titles tarzan gets in the books so its enough to let people know what it is without ERB Inc coming and knocking on your door with some lawyers