About the Title

We devised the idea for the title, Free Mickey!!!, as play on Mickey Mouse Protection Act (officially know as the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998), which extended the length of time that an author or corporation would maintain copyright for in the United States by 20 years. Before the extension, copyright would last for the life of the author plus 50 years, or 75 years for a work of corporate authorship; the Act extended these terms to life of the author plus 70 years and for works of corporate authorship to 120 years after creation or 95 years after publication, whichever endpoint is earlier. Disney was one of the more active of the parties that lobbied Congress in favor of extending the copyright period, which is probably because its copyright over Mickey Mouse was set to expire in the year 2000. This is the reason why the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 is also sarcastically known as the Mickey Mouse Protection Act.
For further reading about the act see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Bono_Copyright_Term_Extension_Act
http://www.techlawjournal.com/courts/eldritch/pl105-298.htm
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