>>115460279The copyright doesn't expire for decades; the trademark is public domain. Basically, if you make a show about your own fly girl named Maggie, you can call it The Buzz on Maggie, but you can't actually use Disney's Maggie.
This happens to car model names when they get discontinued, too: It's why car news companies know about revivals before they're announced, because the car companies have to file to trademark the names again after so many years of disuse.
