Disney's Mickey Mouse enter public domain(bbc.com)
347 points by coolandsmartrr | 160 comments
BBC News article reporting that Disney's earliest versions of Mickey and Minnie Mouse entered the US public domain on 1 January 2024 as copyright expired.
#steamboat-willie on Hacker News
2 stories tagged steamboat-willie, newest first.
Mickey, Disney, and the public domain: A 95-year love triangle(web.law.duke.edu)
330 points by mortenjorck | 180 comments
Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain article by Jennifer Jenkins on Mickey Mouse, Disney, and the copyright history leading to Steamboat Willie entering the public domain.