Under the previous copyright timeline, Mickey Mouse (or, anyway ... shotgun – the financial equivalent of playing Russian roulette. Although the Walt Disney name is synonymous with wholesome ...

“The Government’s Covid-19 response is like Mickey Mouse playing Russian roulette blindfolded,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Continued basic errors in MIQ facilities, poor contact ...

The copyright on Mickey Mouse expires today, meaning The Walt Disney Company no longer has the exclusive rights to the character. Does this mean you can put Mickey in your own cartoon? Not exactly.

M-I-C-K-E-Y will soon belong to you and me. With several asterisks, qualification and caveats, Mickey Mouse in his earliest form will be the leader of the band of characters, films and books that ...

And at least emblematically, the big game this year is the first cinematic iterations of Mickey Mouse — the poster rodent for extended copyright protections. To be clear, for most this is not ...

This claim originated from a satirical site. The Mickey Mouse copyright that expires in 2024 covers the version featured in the 1928 short film "Steamboat Willie." Is Mickey Mouse’s career as ...

The company pushed so hard for an extension of copyright protections in 1998 that the result was derisively nicknamed the Mickey Mouse Protection Act. For the first time, however, one of Disney ...