• ricecake
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    7 months ago

    It’s actually in the public domain, and Disney never claimed copyright.

    The company that had been collecting copyright fees was found to have never held a valid copyright, and that any valid copyright would have long expired if anyone actually did have one which was unproven, and the company had to payback the money they collected.

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      7 months ago

      Everyone working at restaurants clapped

      along to the original tune when it was verified legal to w/o payments!