Sen. Hawley Introduces Bill to Strip ‘Woke Corporations Like Disney’ of Copyright Protections

If passed, the bill would immediately end all copyright protections on Disney's signature character Micky Mouse

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) at a Senate hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on July 28, 2020. Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) introduced a bill on May 10 that would remove the special copyright protections on “woke corporations like Disney.”

“Copyright Clause Restoration Act of 2022 would limit new copyright protections to 56 years and make the change retroactive for massive corporations like Disney that have been granted unnecessarily long copyright monopolies,” Hawley said in a May 10 press release.