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The original Mickey Mouse entered the public domain after Disney's copyright on the image expired. A trove of other cultural works published in 1928 also are losing copyright protection. Here are 10 ...

Steamboat Willie, lMickey Mouse, 1928). Many iconic copyrighted works (most notably, Mickey Mouse) that were first published prior to 1929 fell into the public domain in the United States starting ...

Every year, a new crop of copyrighted work and intellectual property becomes public domain, freeing it up to be used by anyone. But even more so than usual, this year’s entrants include some of the ...

There are now four Mickey Mouse horror movies on the way – and it's all thanks to public domain. According to BloodyDisgusting, another Mickey Mouse horror movie based on the 1928 movie Steamboat ...

Mickey's Mouse Tracks was a television series on the Disney Channel which ran from 1992 to 1994, and featured Disney cartoons and animated short films, dating from before the advent of Disney Channel.

It's been well over a century since animators began dazzling audiences with their big-screen productions, and that means it's time for Hollywood studios to begin losing full control over some of those ...