The public will be able to copy and reproduce thousands of copyrighted works from 1930 in the new year, including flirtatious ...

The original Mickey Mouse entered the public domain after Disney's copyright on the image expired. A trove of other cultural works published in 1928 also are losing copyright protection. Here are 10 ...

M-I-C-K-E-Y will soon belong to you and me. With several asterisks, qualification and caveats, Mickey Mouse in his earliest form will be the leader of the band of characters, films and books that will ...

Here’s how the film is described: “It’s Alex’s 21st birthday, but she’s stuck at the amusement arcade on a late shift so her friends decide to surprise her, but a masked killer dressed as Mickey Mouse ...

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — M-I-C-K-E-Y will soon belong to you and me. With several asterisks, qualification and caveats, Mickey Mouse in his earliest form will be the leader of the band of characters, films ...

Branded is a weekly column devoted to the intersection of marketing, business, design, and culture. The demand for such fare may simply be driven by “the lure of the counterintuitive,” says Susan ...

The giant stuffed bear, its face a twisted smile, lumbers across the screen. Menacing music swells. Shadows mask unknown threats. Christopher Robin begs for his life. And is that a sledgehammer about ...

There’s no guarantee public domain characters will be in good games, but this one seems more than OK. Mickey Mouse is now playable in a video game! Which is to say, the public domain version of Mickey ...

Mickey Mouse Works is an American television show that features the cartoon character Mickey Mouse and his friends in a series of animated segments. It is somewhat of an update of Mickey's Mouse ...

The ‘Steamboat Willie’ version of Mickey Mouse is now in the public domain. Filmmakers are taking advantage of that –– for horror movies. Disney, though, maintains the copyright on more modern ...