TK-949 said:
generalfrevious said:
Just think, if Walt Disney was not bitter about losing the rights to Oswald the Rabbit, we could be enjoying the OOT right now as a legitimate release.
Copyright. Thanks to the Walt Disney Company it's the author's lifetime plus 70 years. Every time Steamboat Willie nears the expiration of its copyright Disney changes the law to avert this event. If copyright laws did not have this absurdly long time period the OT would have gone into public domain before the SE was released, and we would have the originals as they were.