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Steamboat Willy was 1928. In 1998 when the latest copyright changes were made it was 70 years old when copyright was extended from 75 years to 95 years. So frankly it's not unrealistic to say we're no closer to Mickey Mouse being out of copyright than we were in 1998.

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Is there legislation pending to alter the copyright term again? If not, then we are indeed closer.

Yeah, and it's better than that actually, in that the RIAA specifically said they weren't even pursuing the idea last year.

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