Mickey, Disney, and the Public Domain: a 95-year Love Triangle | Duke University School of Law by Jennifer Jenkins, Director, Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain CC BY 4.0 On January 1, 2024, after almost a century of copyright protection, Mickey Mouse, or at least a version of Micke...

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The #MickeyMouseProtectionAct.

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"The Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act – also known as the #CopyrightTermExtensionAct, #SonnyBonoAct, or (derisively) the #MickeyMouseProtectionAct – extended #CopyrightTerms in the United States in 1998.