An early version of Disney’s Mickey Mouse will enter the public domain on January 1

[1srelluc]

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/30/business/disney-copyright-mickey-mouse-expire-2024/index.html

The copyright on Disney’s 1928 short Steamboat Willie expired in the US on New Year’s Day, 95 years after it was released.

Creatives can now rework and use these earliest versions of Mickey and Minnie Mouse, seen in their first screen release, without it incurring a cost.

I want one of these......

There's already a horror movie coming out......The Mouse is out!

 

[1srelluc]

 

[JGalt]

Good! Then let the memes flow.

 

[martybegan]

Good! Then let the memes flow.

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Actually most of those fall under the parody fair use rules, as long as you don't try to make money off of it.

Except the colored one, which uses patterns/colors of a later version, which is still copyrighted.

 

[marvin martian]

Good! Then let the memes flow.

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Disney's evil lawyers are going to be busy.

LOL

 

[Lord Long Rod]

I can't wait for all the Mickey porn!

 

[JGalt]

I can't wait for all the Mickey porn!

That's been around ever since Al Gore made the internet.

Mickey Minnie porn - Google Search

 

[Rawley]

That's been around ever since Al Gore made the internet.

Mickey Minnie porn - Google Search

Ewwww

 

[JGalt]

Ewwww

True that. Rats fucking isn't something I'd normally google.

But I just had to find out.