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

An curved arrow pointing right. Walt Disney Company icon Mickey Mouse is one of the most recognizable characters in the world‚ and he has become the standard by which how long copyrights can last.

Pooh going public was followed this year by a moment many thought would never come: the copyright expiration on the original version of Mickey Mouse, as he appeared in the 1928 Walt Disney short ...

Although the so-called Mickey Mouse Protection Act helped extend copyright protection beyond anything reasonable, the Disney brand was built on looting the public domain. (Remember all those fairy ...

Most notably, Disney's copyright over the original Mickey Mouse expires next year. Does that mean it will be a free-for-all for Disney's most iconic character? What does it mean to be in the ...

But this time, it’s Mickey Mouse, founder Walt Disney’s own creation – or this first version of him, at least (although The Mouse Trap still manged to be first over the line ...

One dark truth behind it all is how seriously that copyright law has been taken in the past and how it's affected the Mickey Mouse character. Disney has a long history of battles with the ...

When WB started work on [Space Jam], they asked Disney to return the favor and let them use a few Disney cartoon characters (Mickey Mouse was originally intended to be the match referee).