The Spirit Of '43 (1943) | Taxes To Defeat The Axis [CC]
Channel: Screen Prism
Date: 2024-01-13

THE SPIRIT OF '43 is an American animated World War II propaganda film created by Walt Disney Studios and was released in January 1943. It's a sequel to The New Spirit (1942) and reuses the entire ending. The film stars Donald Duck and a prototype for the character Scrooge McDuck. The purpose of the film is to encourage Americans to file and pay their income taxes faithfully in order to help the WWII effort.

This short has fallen into the public domain before the 95 year limit, that's how it should be. It's not available on Disney+. The Walt Disney Company (along with other corporations) lobbied Congress to get the copyright laws extended by 20 years, twice! Because of that, it allows published works to be under copyright for almost a century and corporations to squeeze the last ounce of profit from them even long after the profitability has past. It keeps people from enjoying art, which is the purpose of art. 

How Disney routinely exerted influence on the US copyright law: https://shorturl.at/nsERZ 

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