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 ...

Beloved cartoons are entering the public domain next year – but what does that mean? - Early sound films by Alfred Hitchcock and John Ford, and music by Cole Porter and Fats Waller, are also ...

Jan. 1 marks the dawn of a new era for Popeye and Tintin. It's the day the nonagenarian cartoon characters officially enter the U.S. public domain along with a treasure trove of other iconic works.

RICKY THE AI STEAMBOAT Early Mickey Mouse is now in the public domain—and AI is already on the case Experimental AI image generator trained on Disney's 1928 cartoons can make eldritch horrors.

There are further implications for "Steamboat" Mickey's passage into the public domain, as the mouse has had a major hand in setting the last 30 years – if not longer – of U.S. copyright law.

IP Goes Pop! Season 3, Episode #1: Escape of the Famous Cartoon Characters - IP and the Public Domain Subscribe Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Google Podcasts February 7, 2022 ...

Disney Mickey Mouse Is Now In the Public Domain. Well, Sort Of. Even though only one very specific version of the character is free to use, it still represents a positive step for creative ...

Lucky for all of us with an old-school cartoon deficiency, there are loads of public-domain cartoons out there just dying to be distributed in convienent video podcast form.

A 1928 movie featuring the first appearance of Mickey Mouse enters public domain on Jan. 1. But creative and commercial access to the character is complicated by both copyright and trademark law.

A 1928 movie featuring the first appearance of Mickey Mouse enters public domain on Jan. 1. But creative and commercial access to the character is complicated by both copyright and trademark law.

There are a dozen new Mickey cartoons — he speaks for the first time and dons the familiar white gloves,” said Jennifer Jenkins, director of Duke’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain.