Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mickey Mouse made his first appearance in the 1928 animated short “Steamboat Willie.” That early iteration of the iconic Walt ...

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Steamboat Willie, the black-and-white cartoon that introduced Mickey Mouse to the world, is now public domain – and the horror adaptations have already begun. First up is Mickey's Mousetrap, directed ...

The first version of Disney’s Mickey Mouse, which appeared in the 1928 animated short Steamboat Willie, has lost its copyright protection. Disney is fiercely protective of its copyrights, recently ...

(CNN) — Mickey Mouse no longer belongs solely to the Walt Disney Company. On January 1, 2024, an early version of the entertainment company’s mascot, featured in Walt Disney’s 1928 short film, ...

Beginning on Jan. 1, 2024, the earliest form of Mickey Mouse, one of the most iconic characters in American media, will enter the public domain. The iteration of Mickey Mouse as seen in the 1928 ...

The original image of Mickey Mouse in the classic cartoon short "Steamboat Willie" is about to join a long line of scary movie masks like Ghostface, Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees. That's because a ...

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 ...

Just hours after the copyright of the earliest incarnation of one of Disney‘s most legendary characters expired and entered the public domain, it looked as though Mickey Mouse had swapped his life at ...

A horror game featuring a murderous Mickey Mouse and an independent British slasher film starring a person in a Mickey costume are among the first projects featuring the famous Disney animated ...