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Written by Cory Doctorow on 2024-12-17 at 15:43

In 1998, Congress passed the Sonny Bono Copyright Act, AKA the Mickey Mouse Preservation Act, AKA the Copyright Term Extension Act. The 1998 Act tacked another 20 years onto copyright terms, but not just for works that were still in copyright. At the insistence of Disney, Congress actually yanked works out of the public domain - works that had been anthologized, adapted and re-issued - and put them back into copyright for two more decades.

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