Last year's Public Domain Day was a big deal because it included the first-ever iteration of Disney's brand-defining Mickey Mouse. This year sees dozens of more Mickey animations entering the fold ...

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Mao Zedong, Socrates, Mickey Mouse, Ayn Rand, elephants, and echoes of Monty Python in a Dadaist animation film – that is one ...

Other works enter the public domain after their copyright term expires ... The act is also derisively called the Mickey Mouse Protection Act because Disney was one of the forces behind the ...

Mickey Mouse animations, the original Popeye character and hundreds of other works entered the public domain on January 1, 2025. 2025 Oscar nominations snubs and surprises: Sebastian Stan and 'I'm ...

Ahead of its release later this month, a poster and trailer have arrived online for the latest Steamboat Willie-inspired ...

It’s become an annual ritual: Every Jan. 1, more classic works of art or characters enter the public domain ... “The Karnival Kid,” Mickey Mouse short. This 1929 short, Mickey Mouse ...

With several asterisks, qualifications and caveats, Mickey Mouse in his earliest form will be the leader of the band of characters, films and books that will become public domain as the year ...

But as with Mickey Mouse last year and Winnie the Pooh ... “A Cup of Gold,” from 1929, will also enter the public domain. The British novelist Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own ...

Following recent notable additions to the public domain that include Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse ...

Alfred Hitchcock, Mickey Mouse in 'Barn Dance,' and 'A Farewell to Arms' by Ernest Hemingway ...

John Steinbeck’s first novel, “A Cup of Gold,” from 1929, will also enter the public domain. The British novelist Virginia ... And after “Steamboat Willie” made the earliest Mickey Mouse public, a ...