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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
Nothing in Disney's backlist prior to 1937 (Snow White) is worth all that much, and their Mickey Mouse trademark is forever. So January 1, 2019 is no big deal for them.
Getting Japan and Canada to adopt US copyright standards through the Trans-Pacific Partnership is much more important for them.
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I beg to differ. They pushed the 1998 copyright extension, and got mad because Congress didn't act on it quick enough, and a year actually slipped into the public domain (1922).
Steamboat Willie was 1928. The Mouse House has been the most vocefirous about never losing <any> of their copyrights...
(Besides, I have a 1/2 ounce of gold riding on them attempting to do something by 2022....)