I only hear about it in passing in replies, is this news actually true? Are they trying to hide this fact from others?
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Yeah, the immediate loss to Disney is more academic than not. It's important that they haven't managed to pervert copyright laws even further to retain rights indefinitely, but these specific versions of characters were not significant to their bottom line.
Far more important was them voluntarily turning their still protected IPs into worthless radioactive garbage, and that is probably part of the reason they lacked the political clout to keep their copyright shenanigans going even longer.
Which is something a lot of us thought would never happen. It was a pretty common belief 10+ years ago that the public domain essentially ended with the release of Steamboat Willie, and that nothing made after would ever enter it.