Talk:It's a Small World (song)/@comment-5704505-20130113191143/@comment-24612284-20140301161024

This is a huge error. The song indeed was copyrighted and renewed as well. Look up record number RE0000548478 at http://cocatalog.loc.gov/ (the U.S. Copyright Office online catalog) and you will see that the song (contrary to popular belief and many postings) was indeed copyrighted in 1964 and renewed 27 years later in 1991. With the modified copyright laws, it will stay in effect for the life of the authors plus fifty more years. Richard Sherman is still alive although his brother Robert died in 2012. So the copyright will go on for many more years. This seems to be popular folklore which is (as many urban legends) completely untrue.