About Disney's intellectual property rights

It is understood that the intellectual property issues involved in the Disney project are very complicated. Take "Mickey Mouse" as an example, there are copyrights of Mickey Mouse's original image and Mickey Mouse's film and television works. At the same time, Disney Company applied for 45 kinds of trademark registration on Mickey Mouse image, and has more than 1000 valid registered trademarks in China. Different forms of intellectual property rights, the duration, scope and methods of protection are also different. Mickey Mouse cartoon image was born in 1928. According to American copyright law 1909, it can be protected by copyright for 56 years, that is, it entered the public domain on 1984. 1976, the copyright law of the United States increased the protection period of 19 years, that is, the copyright protection expired on 65438+February 3, 20031day. However, Disney's intellectual property rights are authorized to be extended by Congress every year. It can be said that Disney's intellectual property rights will never expire, and China must protect them according to the intellectual property agreement with the United States.