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More Mickey Mouse cartoons and “The Skeleton Dance” animated short will enter the public domain on January 1, 2025. Nearly a year ago on January 1, 2024, “Steamboat Willie,” and the original versions ...

The notion that any Mickey Mouse might be free of copyright restrictions is about as welcome in the Magic Kingdom as an old hag with a poisoned apple. Yet elsewhere, especially in academia, the idea ...

The copyright on Mickey Mouse expires today, meaning The Walt Disney Company no longer has the exclusive rights to the character. Does this mean you can put Mickey in your own cartoon? Not exactly.

Here in Orlando, the city built on Mouse money, we're used to seeing Mickey as an underpaid actor in an uncomfortable oversized outfit, or perhaps a pricey plush souvenir. Kids know him as the hero of ...

Steamboat Willie has passed into the US public domain — but navigating copyright law’s many nuances might be harder than it sounds. Steamboat Willie has passed into the US public domain — but ...

Developments of enormous consequence sometimes follow the most mundane of motives. During the mid-1990s, the giant Disney Corporation became concerned that its 1928 copyright on Mickey Mouse was close ...

The pages of snopes.com include numerous rumors concerning various risque images and sounds that have purportedly been slipped into animated Disney films. While some of these rumors are true (a ...