The original version of an iconic Disney character has entered the public domain. The Center of the Study of the Public ...

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 ...

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 ...

The new year means that a 95-year-old Disney character is now part of the public domain alongside Mickey Mouse and Winnie-the-Pooh.

The original design of Mickey Mouse from the 1928 animated short Steamboat Willie officially entered the public domain on January 1, triggering a flood of parodies and memes. Not to mention, a handful ...

On Aug. 12, 1928, an ambitious young man named Walt Disney filed a copyright application for Mickey Mouse, a new animated character he’d created alongside animator Ub Iwerks. That turned out to be a ...