This year saw one of the most zealously-guarded corporate empires of intellectual property spring a leak, as all the Magic Kingdom’s horses and men couldn’t keep Mickey Mouse from entering the public ...

It seemed inevitable that once the Steamboat Willie version of Mickey Mouse hit the public domain, there would be a frantic scramble to be the first one to cash in with a Mickey Mouse horror movie. So ...

A farmer got more than he bargained for after going to check on the contents of a mousetrap he'd set up to deal with a rodent problem. Luke, who runs a farm in Kentucky with his wife, Lindsey, took to ...

Mickey Mouse made his first appearance in the 1928 animated short “Steamboat Willie.” That early iteration of the iconic Walt Disney character officially entered the public domain on January 1, 2024, ...

At 12:01 am this morning, the earliest iteration of one of the world’s most beloved children’s characters entered the public domain. Shortly thereafter, the trailer for a slasher film called Mickey’s ...

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Many of you are surely familiar with the image of Steamboat Willie, the earliest version of Disney’s Mickey Mouse, a mouse at the helm of a steamboat, whistling a jolly tune. Well, Steamboat Willie ...

No one in their right mind saw a killer Mickey Mouse coming — but lo and behold, it happened. The trailer for Mickey’s Mouse Trap dropped at the start of 2024, and it features Disney’s original ...

It happened — you spotted a mouse. If you’re anything like me, your first instinct may be that you need to pack your luggage and find a new place to live. Of course, that’s not super realistic. A ...