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There were pretty good reasons that the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 (aka the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act or the Sonny Bono Act) was commonly referred to as the Mickey Mouse Protection Act. I don't see much reason for extending the copyright term much at the current time given that corporate copyright to 120 years after creation or 95 years after publication. So Steamboat Willy is protected for a few more years.
About the only good point in this act was that unlike the European approach, the Americans did not move material that had already entered the public domain back into copyright.
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