* 1998 – Disney's Animal Kingdom opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.

Disney World opened on October 1, 1971 with only the Magic Kingdom theme park and has since added Epcot ( October 1, 1982 ), Disney's Hollywood Studios ( May 1, 1989 ) and Disney's Animal Kingdom ( April 22, 1998 ).

The resort's fourth theme park, Disney's Animal Kingdom, opened in 1998.

Armageddon is a 1998 American science fiction disaster drama film, directed by Michael Bay, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and released by Disney's Touchstone Pictures.

Fa Mulan ( Chinese: 花木蘭 ) better known simply as Mulan, is a fictional character and lead protagonist of Disney's thirty-sixth animated feature film Mulan ( 1998 ).

It was reissued in 1998 as a cassette tape titled A Spooky Night in Disney's Haunted Mansion.

The United States district court backed Boosey & Hawkes's case in 1996, but the Second Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the ruling in 1998, stating that Disney's original " license for motion picture rights extends to video format distribution.

In September 1998 Inktomi acquired C2B Technologies, adding a shopping engine technology to its portfolio ; In April 1999 Inktomi acquired Impulse Buy Network, adding 400 merchants to its shopping engine and performance based business shopping model ; in November 1999 Inktomi acquired Webspective ; in August 2000 Inktomi acquired Ultraseek Server from Disney's Go. com ; in September, 2000, Inktomi acquired FastForward Networks ; in December 2000, Inktomi acquired the Content Bridge Business Unit from Adero, a content delivery network, which had formed the Content Bridge Alliance with Inktomi, AOL and a number of other ISPs, hosting providers and IP transport providers ; and in June 2001 Inktomi acquired eScene Networks.

He is also known for his work as Tummi Gummi in Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears, the original voice of Peter Venkman in DIC's The Real Ghostbusters, and Larry the Crash Test Dummy in a series of United States Department of Transportation public service announcements that promoted the use of seat belts which ran from 1985 to 1998.

* The airport is used instead of the Napa Valley Airport in Disney's 1998 remake of " The Parent Trap ".

Varney also lent his voice to Slinky Dog in Disney's Toy Story 1 and 2 in the Toy Story series ( Varney was replaced by Blake Clark in Toy Story 3 due to his death in 2000 ), and played numerous others, including " Cookie " Farnsworth, from Atlantis: The Lost Empire, released the year after his death ( Steve Barr replaced Varney for the sequel Atlantis: Milo's Return ), the carny character Cooter in the " Bart Carny " episode of The Simpsons, the character Walt Evergreen in the Duckman episode " You've Come a Wrong Way, Baby ", Prince Carlos Charmaine ( a royal suitor Jackie dates ) for a few episodes of the final season of the 1990s television series Roseanne, and Lothar Zogg in the 1998 film 3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain, also starring Hulk Hogan and Loni Anderson as well as Toby Shephard in Jumanji.

Wilson has often lent his voice to animated productions such as Batman: The Animated Series ( 1993 ), The New Batman Adventures ( 1998 ), Disney's Atlantis: Milo's Return ( 2003 ), and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie ( 2004 ).

It was reissued in 1998 as a cassette tape titled A Spooky Night in Disney's Haunted Mansion.

The movie was released on VHS and Laserdisc in 1987 ( this was in Disney's The Classics video series ) and 1998 ( this was in the Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection video series ).

Trimark later released a sequel, A Kid in Aladdin's Palace, in 1998, but without Disney's involvement.

In 1998, Morita voiced the Emperor of China in Disney's 36th animated feature Mulan and reprised the role in Kingdom Hearts II and Mulan II, a direct-to-video sequel.

The construction of DCA began in 1998, as part of the Disneyland Resort expansion project which included the new theme park, the Disney's Grand Californian Hotel, Downtown Disney, and the renovation of the Disneyland Hotel and the Paradise Pier Hotel, and was completed in 2001.

* 1998: Construction begins on Disney's California Adventure.

After its first publicly known proposal for a second theme park in Anaheim was scrapped, construction began in 1998 on a theme park called " Disney's California Adventure Park ", later renamed Disney California Adventure ; a hotel called Disney's Grand Californian Hotel & Spa ; a renovation, renaming, and re-theming of the Disneyland Pacific Hotel as the Disney's Paradise Pier Hotel ; and an admission-free shopping and dining area called Downtown Disney.

Stapleton voiced John Rolfe's maid, Mrs. Jenkins in Disney's 1998 direct-to-video animated film Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World.

In 1998, following the success of The Parent Trap and her separation from Shyer, Disney's Touchstone Pictures chairman Joe Roth asked Meyers to reconstruct an original script named Head Games about a man who gains the power to hear everything women are thinking, an idea originally conceived by The King of Queens producers Cathy Yuspa and Josh Goldsmith.

In 1998 the length of a copyright in the United States was increased by 20 years under the Copyright Term Extension Act.

In 1998 faculty member Lawrence Lessig, now at Stanford Law School, was asked by online publisher Eldritch Press to mount a legal challenge to US copyright law.

Specifically, for works published before January 1, 1978 and still in copyright on October 27, 1998, the term was extended to 95 years.

Along with other foreign-made works, the film's U. S. copyright was restored in 1998, but the constitutionality of this copyright extension was challenged in Golan v. Gonzales and as Golan v. Holder it was ruled that " In the United States, that body of law includes the bedrock principle that works in the public domain remain in the public domain.

* January 1 – Assuming that the copyright laws are not changed further, all works published in 1923 enter the public domain in the U. S., the first works to do so since the passage of the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.

* Developing sanity in human affairs edited by Susan Presby Kodish and Robert P. Holston, Greenwood Press, Westport Connecticut, copyright 1998, Hofstra University.

* In 1998, Scientology ( through subsidiary Bridge Publications ) sued FACTNet for claimed copyright violations.

* Stephane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt the Gold Edition ( 1934 to 1937, copyright 1998 )

This list proved to be extremely attractive to similar popular classical music radio stations in other countries and there was a legal dispute between Ray and Classic FM, which Ray won in 1998, as to who was entitled to the copyright in the playlist and ratings ( Robin Ray v Classic FM Plc FSR 622 ).

To date, only one case ( before a WTO dispute settlement panel, involving U. S. copyright exemptions allowing restaurants, bars and shops to play radio and TV broadcasts without paying licensing fees, passed in 1998 as a rider to the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act ) has actually required an interpretation of the test.

In January 1998, Eller Industries was given permission to purchase the Indian copyright from the receivers of the previous owner.

1998 ), was a copyright case about the Russian language weekly Russian Kurier in New York City that had copied and published various materials from Russian newspapers and news agency reports of Itar-TASS.

Fox sued in 1998, claiming that Dastar had infringed the copyright to the Crusade in Europe book, and that, under the Lanham Act, it had illegally done a " reverse passing off ", passing off the work of others as its own work.

Bono Mack was a leading proponent of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998, the so-called Mickey Mouse Law, which extended the terms of copyright.

Anton Piller orders have been granted by the High Court in William A. Grogan ( copyright owner of RAMDIS ) v. Monaghan Electrical Ltd & Michael Traynor ( 1998 ) related to an unlicensed copy of the RAMDIS software system, Joblin-Purser v. Jackman ( 1999 ) and Microsoft Corporation v. Brightpoint Ireland Ltd. ( 2001 ), but the issue has not come before the Supreme Court and, owing to the civil nature of the order and the strong protection given to the family home in the constitution, it currently exists in something of a grey area.

In 1998, owners of the Barney the Dinosaur children's character sued Giannoulas for copyright and trademark infringement, over a sketch in which the Chicken engages in a slapstick dance contest against a Barney-like character.

In 1998, The United States Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ( DMCA ) which criminalizes evasion of copy protection ( with certain exceptions ), destruction or mismanagement of copyright management information, and a clause to exempt ISPs from liability of infringement if one of their subscribers infringe.

The chapter contains elements modelled on the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act 1998 ( US ) and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act 1998 ( US ) In December 2003, Trade Minister Mark Vaile pledged to defend the copyright term in Australia: “ It is a very important issue, particularly in terms of cost to libraries, educational institutions and the like here in Australia .” Two months later, Australia agreed to a copyright term extension, as part of the deal with the United States.

Warrior and the WWF engaged in a series of lawsuits and legal actions in 1996 and 1998, where both parties sought a declaration that they owned the characters, Warrior and Ultimate Warrior, under both contract and copyright law.

However, the name and specific wording of the rules and gameplay are copyright 1998 Chrisbo I. P.