On 23 Oct 96, Kit Ballantyne wrote to Steven Acevedo:
 ->> And how long do you think it will be before we ever see them at all?
 ->> Maybe never. :-(
 KB> Well, I don't remember how long a copyright is good for anymore. The
 KB> laws changed about 20 years ago, but the older Disney material is NOt
 KB> covered by that change. Some Disney things have already expired, like
 KB> most of the VERY EARLY cartoons. I have many of them on tape from
 KB> non-Disney sources that made the tapes and distributed them AFTER the
 KB> copyright expired. I think the really old stuff expires after 60 years
 KB> and, if I remember, that stuff CANNOT be renewed. I know the copyright
 KB> on "Minnie's Yoo-Hoo", for instance, has expired and it is considered
 KB> public domain. "Song of the South" expires 60 years after the date of
 KB> it's first release. The stuff being made now (and since the copyright
 KB> law changed) have longer copyrights and can be renewed once. For
 KB> instance, Disney was able to make "Return To Oz" because the copyrights
 KB> on the Oz books have expired. They are now public domain.
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