A variety of solutions involving permitting extensive relicensing on some sort of exponential scale have been proposed, but it&#x27;s all just pointless academic speculation as long as Disney can just keep buying extensions.<p>It does seem to me that we could possibly reach a compromise with Disney in that respect; to be honest, I don&#x27;t really <i>care</i> whether Mickey falls into the public domain anytime soon anymore. But it&#x27;s stupid to hold the entire culture hostage for the vanishingly small percentage of things from the early 20th century that are still ongoing commercial concerns.