As of New Year's Day, Disney’s iconic character Steamboat Willie has been made available for creatives to use now that the original mouse’s copyright has ended. After 95 years, the cartoon that ...

The beginning of 2026 brought new copyrighted items entering the public domain, including multiple iconic Disney cartoons and ...

(CNN) — Mickey Mouse no longer belongs solely to the Walt Disney Company. On January 1, 2024, an early version of the entertainment company’s mascot, featured in Walt Disney’s 1928 short film, ...

Nine Mickey Mouse cartoons, the Marx Brothers' film "Animal Crackers," and books by William Faulkner and Agatha Christie are ...

The first released version of Mickey Mouse is now in the public domain but not all of the variants of the mouse are free to use. When the calendar changed from 2023 to 2024, the Mickey Mouse known as ...

When Walt Disney first released the cartoon short film Steamboat Willie in November 1928, it was groundbreaking. It was one of the cartoons to use synchronized sound, and would go on to become one of ...

It’s 2024, and that means that Mickey Mouse is (kind of, but not really) in the public domain. As the clock struck midnight on January 1, 2024, the earliest animation featuring Mickey Mouse, Steamboat ...

Read full article: Deputies investigate fatal hit-and-run in northwest Miami-Dade LOS ANGELES – M-I-C-K-E-Y will soon belong to you and me. With several asterisks, qualification and caveats, Mickey ...

At 12:01 AM Monday, the earliest version of Mickey Mouse went into the public domain. It took little time for projects featuring Mickey and his gloveless hands to be made into anything. From erotic ...