Pooh's shift into the public domain sees the loveable teddy appear in some unlikely material
abc.net.au/news/winnie-the-pooh-school-shooting-public-domain-blood-and-honey/102397796Last month, California Governor Gavin Newsom tweeted his outrage at a book allegedly distributed to Texas children teaching them what to do in the case of an active school shooting.
In recent years in the US, the "run, hide, fight" mantra has become the accepted danger response when involved in a school shooting.Loading Twitter content An artist or author's ownership generally expires 70 years after their death or 95 years after publication. In the case of Pooh, it was the latter.
The director of Blood and Honey, Rhys Frake-Waterfield, recently confirmed that he's also in the planning stages of a slasher starring orphaned deer Bambi — who came into the public domain in 2022. Creators have to be very careful not to make their Pooh look too much like Disney's version, lest they be met with the company's infamously litigious copyright lawyers.
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