Get ready, nerds: a whole host of iconic works of art — from film, music, animation, books, and more—are coming into the public domain in 2025. Last year's Public Domain Day was a big deal ...

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Terrifier's' David Howard Thornton plays a homicidal Mickey Mouse in this kitschy public domain slasher based on Disney's ...

For quite some time, copyright laws have shielded many iconic and well-known characters. However, since 2019, some of those existing copyrights have been expiring, meaning that those characters ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Walt Disney Company icon Mickey Mouse is one of the most recognizable characters in the world‚ and he has become the standard by which how long copyrights can last.

It’s the battle of the public domain characters. Untouchables Entertainment, a banner that releases films based around intellectual properties who have entered the public domain, has released ...

To be clear, this is completely disconnected from anything related to Blood and Honey or the Poohniverse/Twisted Childhood Universe movies. Mickey-vs-Winnie is the start of an entirely new thing ...

Compared to recent riffs on Winnie the Pooh and Popeye, the 'Steamboat Willie' horror spoof has fun skewering the company that's been so protective of its now-public-domain IP. There are two ...