Mickey Mouse has left the house: Steamboat Willie enters the public domain
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Don’t forget that (this specific version of) Mickey Mouse will soon be ours.
TechDirt published a helpful reminder yesterday that the 1928 “Steamboat Willie” iteration of the Disney character will become the people’s mouse on January 1st, 2024. The article also points to a Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain guide for using the early design.
You could take a page out of the Winnie-the-Pooh: the Deforested Edition playbook and create “Steamboat Willie: the Climate Change Edition,” in which Mickey’s boat is grounded in a dry riverbed. You could create a feminist remake with Minnie Mouse as the central figure. You could reimagine Mickey and Minnie dedicating themselves to animal welfare.
Mickey, Disney, and the Public Domain: a 95-year Love Triangle
[web.law.duke.edu]
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