Paul Winchell was a ventriloquist, actor, and comedian whose career flourished in the 1950s and 1960s.

Winchell, who had medical training, was also an inventor, becoming the first person to build and patent a mechanical artificial heart, implantable in the chest cavity (US Patent #3097366)

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The wonderful things about tiggers- they make hearts beat really loud

And how they stand out in a crowd

They also know lots of things

They’re funny, clever, funny, clever

FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN

But the most wonderful things about tiggers is that I’m the only one~

:)

All Disney Lorcana cards featuring characters from "Winnie the Pooh" so far.

"Now let's go get Tigger", said Pooh.

Copy Right and Public Domain in 2024

Happy 2024 all! its also Public Domain Day! a magical holiday here in America where things enter the public domain. Works published in the year 1928 (or 95 years ago!) have entered the public domain, which means they belong to us, all of us, the public!

Mickey's Back!

Yes! I'm sure you've heard, but Mickey Mouse (and Minnie Mouse too) is entering the Public Domain today. This has been news for a few years and indeed Disney's lobbying in the late 1990s is why our copy right term is SO long. So what exactly is now public domain?

Most people know about Mickey's first appearance Steamboat Willie, but a second short film, Plane Crazy was also released in 1928 so will also be public domain. So what's public? well these two films first of all, you're allowed to play them, upload them to YouTube or whatever without paying Disney. In theory you'll be allowed to cut and sample them, have them playing in the background of your movie etc. Likewise in theory the image of Mickey and Minnie as they appear (thats important) in these films will be free to use as well as Mickey's character as he appears in these works will be free to use. Now Mickey's later and more famous appearance

will still be protected. Famously the Conan Doyle Estate claimed that Sherlock Holmes couldn't be nice, smile, or not hate women in works because they still held the copyright on the short stories where he first did those things even though 90% of Sherlock Holmes stories were public domain. It's very likely Disney will assert similar claims over Mickey, claiming much of his personality first appeared in works still copyrighted.

Finally there's copyright vs trademark. Copyright is total ownership of a piece of media and all the ideas that appear in it, copyright has a limited set term and expires. Trademark is more limited and only applies to things used to market and sell a product. You can have a Coke branded vending machine in your movie if you want, but it couldn't appear anywhere in the trailer for your movie as thats you marketing your movie.

Where trademark ends and copyright begins and how trademarked something in the public domain is allowed to be are all unsettled areas of law and clearly Disney in the last few years as been aggressively pushing its trademark not just to Mickey in general but Steamboat Willie Mickey in particular

Ultimately the legal rights and wrongs of this might not matter so much since few people have the money and legal resources of the Walt Disney corporation so they might manage to maintain a de facto copyright on Mickey through legal intimidation, but maybe not?

And Tigger Too!

All the talk about Mickey Mouse and Steamboat Willie has sadly overshadowed other MAJOR things entering the public domain today. Most people are aware Winnie the Pooh entered the public domain in 2022, but they might not realize his beloved friend Tigger didn't. Thats because Tigger didn't appear till A. A. Milne's second (and last) book of Pooh short stories, The House at Pooh Corner in 1928.

Much like Mickey Mouse only what appears in The House at Pooh Corner is public domain so the orange bouncy boy from the 1960s Disney cartoon is still on lock down. But the A. A. Milne original as illustrated by E. H. Shepard is free for you to use in fiction or art. His friend Winnie the Pooh has made a number of appearances since being freed, most notably in a horror movie, but also a Mint Mobile commercial so maybe Tigger too will have a lot of luck in the public domain.

Other works:

Peter Pan; or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up

Peter Pan is a strange case, even though the play was first mounted in 1904, and the novelization (Peter and Wendy) was published in 1911, The script for the play was not published till 1928 (confusing!) meaning while the novel as been public domain for years the play (which came first) hasn't been, but now it is and people are welcome to mount productions of it.

Millions of Cats

The oldest picture book still in print, did you own a copy growing up? (I did)

Lady Chatterley's Lover

The iconic porn novel that was at the center of a number of groundbreaking obscenity cases in the 1960s and helped establish your right to free speech.

All Quiet on the Western Front and The Threepenny Opera in their original German (but you can translate them if you want), The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie, and Orlando by Virginia Woolf will also be joining us in the public domain along with any and all plays, novels, and books published in 1928

for Films we have The Man Who Laughs who's iconic image inspired the Joker

Charlie Chaplin's The Circus, Buster Keaton's The Cameraman, Should Married Men Go Home? the first Laurel and Hardy movie, Lights of New York the first "all talking" movie, The Passion of Joan of Arc, The Wind, as well as The Last Command and Street Angel the first films to win Oscars for Best Actor and Best Actress respectively will all be entering public domain

For Musical Compositions (more on that in a moment) we've got

Mack the Knife by Bertolt Brecht, Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall in Love) by Cole Porter, Sonny Boy by George Gard DeSylva, Lew Brown & Ray Henderson, Empty Bed Blues by J. C. Johnson, and Makin’ Whoopee! by Gus Khan are some of the notables but any piece of music published in 1928 is covered

Any art work published in 1928, which might include works by Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe, Alexej von Jawlensky, Edward Hopper, and André Kertész will enter the public domain, we are sure those that M. C. Escher's Tower of Babel will be in the public domain

Swan Song, Public Domain and recorded music

While most things are covered by the Copyright Act of 1976 as amended by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, none of the copyright acts covered recordings you see when American copyright law was first written recordings did not exist and so through its many amendings no one fixed this problem, movies were treated like plays and artwork, but recorded sound wasn't covered by any federal law. So all sound recordings from before 1972 were governed by a confusing mess of state level laws making it basically impossible to say what was public and what was under copyright. In 2017 Congress managed to do something right and passed the Music Modernization Act. Under the act all recordings from 1922 and before would enter the public domain in 2022. After taking a break for 2023, all sound recordings made in 1923 have entered the public domain today on January 1st 2024, these include.

Enjoy your public domain works!

Big year for British bear fans, it's both Sooty's 75th anniversary year and Paddington's 65th anniversary year! And next year is Pooh's 100th anniversary year!

Everyone say congrats to the birthday boys right now!!

I didn’t realise Sooty was older than Paddington :O would explain why our poor sooty is so threadbare

Disney Network Highlights - January 2024

The Ghost and Molly McGee

Kiff

Spidey and His Amazing Friends

Playdate with Winnie The Pooh

Pupstruction

SuperKitties

Mickey Mouse Funhouse

Happy ThanksGiving!

This was meant for actual Thanksgiving but I didn’t know at the time the day was Halloween and Christmas and the day changes every year.

Development Art and Animatic for a Untitled Disney TVA Variety Sketch Comedy Series created by Audie Harrison (Cartoon Network Studios "Uncle Grandpa" and "Sunshine Brownstone").

The series would have featured the characters Chip 'n Dale ,Lilo & Stitch, Tigger from Winnie The Pooh & Cheshire Cat from Alice In Wonderland on different variety sketches ala Warner Bros Animation "MAD" and "Right Now Kapow".

Watch the full pilot here

There's too many edgy Winnie the Pooh works already (Blood & Honey, Winnie's Hole, Hundred Acre Wood).

Where's my Winnie the Pooh series where Christopher Robin is a witch apprentice under the guidance of a clumsy but cozy witch mentor named Winnie that takes inspirations from Ojamajo Doremi and Moomin, and with riveting topics surrounding on deflorestation and capitalism?

I have a mighty need for this! Also, is the Witch Mentor a bear or is the bear Christopher Robin's familiar? I absolutely must know!

I sincerely wasn't expecting someone to get genuinely interested in this idea, but eh, why the heck not? Why not both?

Winnie wears a fuzzy hooded yellow poncho with an adorable pair of bear ears popping out. She's also a beekeeper that can magically speak with bees and collect their honey for her potions and recipes, and her wand is a wooden honeydipper.

To keep with the original story's vibes of cozy childhood, Christopher Robin's mascot is a yellow teddy bear crafted by Winnie named Puff (pronounced Poo-fee), kinda referencing MahouPre's Mofurun.

A Wistful Tour of Winnie the Pooh’s Hundred-Acre Wood

Willy Nilly Silly Old Bear

Playdate with Winnie The Pooh opens #DisneyJuniorPlaydate at Disney's California Adventure as later today, Disney Branded Television unveiled the upcoming slate for Fall 2023-2025 of Disney Television Animation and Disney Junior Educational Resource Group for Disney Junior.

Muppet Fact #333

In Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue, characters from the Muppet Babies, The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Garfield, The Real Ghostbusters, ALF, The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show, Alvin and the Chipmunks, DuckTales, The Smurfs, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were brought together for a program on NBC, CBS, and ABC financed by McDonald's to deter kids from using drugs.

Source:

Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue. April 21, 1990.

My entire fifth grade class watching this years after the fact: Yo! I remember that cartoon! Don't do drugs? No one cares about that, there's Garfield!

Disney Junior Sets Playdate With Playdate with Winnie The Pooh Trailer

Deep in the Hundred Acre Wood, you're invited to a special playdate! 🍯🐝🐻🎈

Inspired by A.A. Milne's world, Playdate with Winnie The Pooh and Me & Winnie The Pooh premieres Friday August 18 only on Disney Junior and Disney+.

"Disney Junior: Playdate with Winnie The Pooh. Vol 1" by Walt Disney Records is set to debut August 18. a line of products by Disney Direct Consumer Products and Disney Publishing Worldwide is set to debut on late 2024.

"Playdate with Winnie The Pooh" is part of Disney TVA and Disney Junior's goal of introducing legacy Walt Disney Animation Studios IP to new generations. Other projects at Disney TVA include Ariel set for 2024 and a development project with the Aristocats IP.