ElectricPeterTork wrote:
It's Marvel's new corporate daddy that got copyright law extended out to such ludicrous amounts of time in the first place, and probably will do so again the next time Steamboat Willie comes close to being in public domain.
The irony is that STEAMBOAT WILLIE is most likely already in the public domain due to the way the original copyright was accredited.  However, no one (yet) is willing to risk the wrath of the Disney lawyers to give it a test (Disney even threatened to sue the law students who recently proved this as part of a college class).