An updated design featuring Mickey Mouse and his friends has been featured on several new merchandise items in Walt Disney World. We found most of these new items at the Emporium, Fantasy Faire, and ...

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Just hours after the copyright of the earliest incarnation of one of Disney‘s most legendary characters expired and entered the public domain, it looked as though Mickey Mouse had swapped his life at ...

LOS ANGELES — The earliest iteration of Mickey Mouse is on a rampage, barely two days in the public domain. Slashed free of Disney's copyright as of Monday, the iconic character from “Steamboat Willie ...

The original version of an iconic Disney character has entered the public domain. The Center of the Study of the Public ...

The earliest iteration of Mickey Mouse is on a rampage, barely two days in the public domain. Slashed free of Disney’s copyright as of Monday, the iconic character from “Steamboat Willie” is already ...

On Aug. 12, 1928, an ambitious young man named Walt Disney filed a copyright application for Mickey Mouse, a new animated character he’d created alongside animator Ub Iwerks. That turned out to be a ...

After years of Disney stalling and bending copyright law to their will, Mickey Mouse has officially entered the public domain. Independent creators can now play around with the famous mascot as he ...