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 ...

Although the so-called Mickey Mouse Protection Act helped extend copyright protection beyond anything reasonable, the Disney ...

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 ...

“Screamboat” isn’t the first slasher movie to spoof “Steamboat Willie,” the 1928 animated short that introduced a primitive black-and-white version of Mickey Mouse, but it’s ... Even if LaMorte didn’t ...

In reality, however, Disney will lose copyright protection for the first version of Mickey Mouse from “Steamboat Willie,” a 1928 short black-and-white film, in the United States and several ...

Compared to recent riffs on Winnie the Pooh and Popeye, the 'Steamboat Willie' horror spoof has fun skewering the company that's been so protective of its now-public-domain IP. “Screamboat ...