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   As the year 2024 draws closer, Disney fans have become increasingly vocal   
   and concerned about The Walt Disney Company losing the rights to Mickey   
   Mouse. But Disney has already lost almost 95% of the classic animation   
   material from its feature films, such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,   
   Fantasia, Dumbo, and Bambi, and no amount of lobbying Congress could have   
   stopped the loss.   
      
   One of the earliest versions of Disney’s Mickey Mouse is set to enter the   
   public domain on January 1, 2024, ending a 96-year-long copyright held by   
   the entertainment giant since Mickey’s first cartoon, Steamboat Willie,   
   debuted in 1928. At that time, Mickey’s copyright was valid for 28 years,   
   with the option for Disney to extend it for an additional 28 years,   
   meaning that the original copyright for the Steamboat Willie character was   
   set to enter the public domain at the end of 1983. Facing a loss of   
   ownership, Disney sprang into action to save the beloved mouse from life   
   outside The Walt Disney Company.   
      
   Disney wasted no time, bypassing any potential riff-raff and going   
   directly to the United States government for help, lobbying Congress in an   
   effort to hold on to Mickey a little longer. Whether federal lawmakers   
   revered Disney as an untouchable entertainment powerhouse or the American   
   people had elected a Congress full of Mickey fans, we’ll never know, but   
   Congress happily extended Disney’s copyright by enacting the “Mickey Mouse   
   Protection Act,” or, as it is formally known, the Copyright Term Extension   
   Act.   
      
   Copyrights don’t last forever, though, and when the clock strikes midnight   
   on January 1, 2024, Disney will be forced to say farewell to Steamboat   
   Willie–though his trademark will remain.   
      
   But while there may still be some measure of hope for Mickey, there’s no   
   hope for a loss of Disney property that has already occurred–one that   
   never made the headlines as Steamboat Willie did. The Walt Disney Company   
   has already suffered a tragic loss of some of its intellectual property,   
   and the company has no one to blame but its very own animators.   
      
   In the 1930s and 1940s, when Walt Disney’s animators were tasked with   
   hand-drawing the characters and backgrounds for some of the studio’s most   
   beloved animated films, they embraced their work with great passion and   
   dedication. They apparently enjoyed their work and had lots of fun on the   
   clock. Back then, hand-drawn animation was a lengthy, labor-intensive   
   process, but it was business as usual for those in that line of work.   
   Because of this, animators were often very carefree–and sometimes   
   careless–when it came to the fragile vintage art they were creating.   
      
   Arthur Stevens, a long-time Disney animator and director who worked on   
   classic Disney animated films The Rescuers (1977), The Fox and the Hound   
   (1981), and The Black Cauldron (1985), once explained that animators used   
   to toss finished animation canvases on the floor when they were finished   
   with them. Some animators even used the canvases to slide around on the   
   floors. While the practice might have been good for team-building, it was   
   entirely destructive for the artwork itself.   
      
   It created multiple problems for the studio as well. Over the years, the   
   carelessness of Disney’s animators resulted in the loss of nearly 95% of   
   Disney’s vintage animation material–a loss from which recovery is not   
   possible. In an effort to prevent further losses, experts now employ   
   preservation techniques to care for the remaining material. The goal is to   
   lower the risk of further damage and loss of Disney’s treasured and   
   priceless artwork.   
      
   Fortunately for Disney fans of every age, all of the films for which the   
   animation material was lost are still available in some physical and   
   digital formats and can be streamed on the Disney+ platform.   
      
   Not if you're woke broke!!   
      
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