Steamboat Willie was originally going to enter PD in 2004, but Disney got passed the "Mickey Mouse Protection Act" in 1998 to stop that from happening. They extended the length by 20 years, and it is now 20 years later, so Disney is finally forced to swallow what it chewed.
To celebrate this momentous occasion, I present to you "Copying is Not Theft" by @nina :
@Humpleupagus@alex@nina Funny story, Conan the Barbarian copyright is expired, but whoever pretends to own it, sues everyone and demands everyone pay tithe for using name "Conan", even if its literally their name. Or that (((brittish))) company "sky" which sues everyone for using word sky in any names. Kikes feel above the law.
@Humpleupagus@alex@nina Or "games workshop". They tried to copyright pauldrons. And tried to sue people for using term "space marine" despite not actually owning it. The logic was "we are using it, therefore WE OWN IT". This bullshit pretty much caused their retarded "Age of sigmar" which is basically assigning stupid copyrighted names to classic fantasy races, so no one steals them. Amazing names such as aElfs, which are totally different from regular elfs, because they have different name. And btw, sigmar is just Conan the Barbarian ripoff, but they 100% own him, because he has a different name.