Direitos autorais: domínio público sobre a imagem do Mickey

Abstract

This work aims to analyze the loss of copyright of the Mickey Mouse character, by The Walt Disney Company, and how this will bring moral and especially financial losses, because the character is the most important in matters of knowledge and revenue, among all the characters Disney animated films. The analysis will be based on Intellectual Property, to investigate the existing Copyrights and the relationship with the Public Domain, since the biggest problem found is the conflicts between individual rights and collective rights. It is a descriptive and qualitative research, as the objective is to describe the fact, based on the subjective character, in the benefit of data collection for the construction of hypotheses. Through searches in the legislation, the possible forms of protection of these authors can be found, in national and international scope, as the existing jurisprudence, of Copyright and Copyright Law. At the end of the work, it is clear that although the character is close to falling into Public Domain, he has become something so much bigger, that Disney will have a very long legal protection, as long as they continue to renew.