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In other words he is making mountain out of a ant hillEven if Disney doesn't manage to get its whores in Congress to renew the copyright, Steamboat Willie alone would be public domain, and the general idea of Mickey Mouse. The trademark has been in continual use and won't go away, and only the Steamboat Willie version of the character, and the work itself, would become public domain.
It's not as big a deal as he thinks.