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Steamboat Willie, the first Mickey Mouse cartoon, will become public domain in literally 13 days.
Only because it's not as important for them to keep it, they make a lot of money from other properties
No, they can't extend any further. The copyright has a hard expiration at the end of 2023.
They've lobbied before
They have, but they didn't. And it's not a foregone conclusion that they'd succeed. The longest copyright lifespan is currently 105 years from what I read, and I wonder if they could grease enough palms to convince people it should be longer than a century.
We're already in "excessively long" territory, and Congress still has a few reasonable people left, so I'm not convinced it would happen.