“Steamboat Willie,” entered the public domain for the first time. A teaser trailer for “Mickey’s Mouse Trap,” a live-action film directed by Jamie Bailey and released Monday, depicts a ...

The mouse is out.” The movie was directed by Jamie Bailey, who said in a statement: “We just wanted to have fun with it all. I mean it’s Steamboat Willie’s Mickey Mouse murdering people.

But in January 2024, the copyright on Steamboat Willie officially expired, and Mickey Mouse is now officially in the public domain. This means that now anyone in the U.S. can use the Steamboat ...

A Walt Disney movie featuring the first appearance of Mickey Mouse moved into the public domain on New Year’s Day. The 1928 short film "Steamboat Willie" introduces audiences to a non-speaking ...

Other posts, such as this post, say only one version of Mickey Mouse -- the one seen in 1928’s “Steamboat Willie” -- is available for public use. U.S. copyright law says copyright protection ...

The earliest known version of Disney’s Mickey Mouse entered the public domain on Jan. 1, nearly 100 years after the iconic character first appeared in the 1928 short film Steamboat Willie.

Steamboat Willie is a play on its name. "Mickey Mouse made an appearance in a film for the first time that very much relied on another copyrighted work that helped propel its popularity," McLeod ...

With a black-and-white ghoul version of Mickey Mouse in a Steamboat Willie hat apparently being one of those characters, though he doesn't appear to be named in the game trailer. But rather than ...

"Mouse," as it's only the "Mickey" character seen in Walt Disney's 1928 "Steamboat Willie" short that has entered the public ...

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 ...

said that while the public domain allows anyone to re-envision Steamboat Willie in any way they want, you cannot copy elements of the more modern Mickey Mouse. Disney still has a trademark on those.