Disney's then partner, and one of animation's most extraordinary
talents, Ub Iwerks, put it more strongly: "I have never been so thrilled
in my life. Nothing since has ever equaled it."
+<indexterm><primary>Iwerks, Ub</primary></indexterm>
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Disney had created something very new, based upon something relatively
fixed for a limited time, after which the work protected by copyright
passed into the public domain.
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-<indexterm><primary>Bacon, Francis</primary></indexterm>
-<indexterm><primary>Bunyan, John</primary></indexterm>
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"The public domain." Before the case of Donaldson v. Beckett, there
was no clear idea of a public domain in England. Before 1774, there
and the greatest works in English history—including those of
Shakespeare, Bacon, Milton, Johnson, and Bunyan—were free of
legal restraint.
+<indexterm><primary>Bacon, Francis</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>Bunyan, John</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>Johnson, Samuel</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>Milton, John</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>Shakespeare, William</primary></indexterm>
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It is hard for us to imagine, but this decision by the House of Lords
President Kennedy has Valenti in the background. In his almost forty
years of running the MPAA, Valenti has established himself as perhaps
the most prominent and effective lobbyist in Washington.
+<indexterm><primary>Johnson, Lyndon</primary></indexterm>
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The MPAA is the American branch of the international Motion Picture