🤣 I tried to tell y'all, the mouse is a thug! Don't try to get between Mickey and his money! You will learn a very hard lesson.
https://abovethelaw.com/2023/03/disneys-lawyers-are-better-than-ron-desantiss-lawyers/
When Disney scheduled their national LGBTQIA convention in Florida even after all the tantrum and blowback, that was the first clue that they were unbothered. That wasn't a mistake or an oversight.
*Let them fight meme.gif*
@mekkaokereke Oh my god. That is a thing of beauty.
"If the perpetual term of this Declaration is deemed to violate the 'Rule Against Perpetuities,' or any similar law or rule, this Declaration shall continue in effect until twenty one (21) years after the death of the last survivor of the descendants of King Charles III, King of England living as of the date of this Declaration." 🤣
@siderea @mekkaokereke
Agreed, hilariously not in perpetuity but nearly as close to. Something that will be maintained by the United Kingdom government, 🇬🇧 will be public knowledge, indisputable and also +21 years.
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I wonder if the form of the condition - someone's life plus N years - is a subtle allusion to the "Mickey Mouse Protection Act" (actually the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998), which extended copyright in the US to life of the creator plus 75 years. As if Disney's lawyers were saying, "Remember us? We're the folks who *bought ourselves a federal law*."
It'd be actually hilarious (in a very grim and unpleasant fashion) if Disney were the ones to come up with it due to that, but the use of a Royal Lives Clause to circumvent perpetuity restrictions has been around for well over 400 years, according to Wikipedia.
@theogrin @siderea @mekkaokereke
Cool. I thought it might have been a standard legal tool.
I find it fascinating how a British monarch is used in US law though. With contract law being the lowest form of law, it shows how difficult it is to write perpetuity legislation.
The Rockefellers have been used in the past, so it's certainly not just the royal family which gets used for this sort of thing. You could probably source any public figure with a bunch of kids and a high life expectancy, and the Royal Family have long had the entire medical apparatus of the British Isles waiting on them hand and foot.
Though with Charles III's belief in homeopathy, that's maybe not as sure a bet as it used to be.
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