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internetarchive (internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org)'s status on Thursday, 21-Dec-2023 03:50:35 JST internetarchive

You’ve probably heard that Mickey Mouse is moving into the public domain in 2024. What does that mean for reusing & remixing this iconic character in new works of art? Well, as Duke’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain explains, it’s…complicated: https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/mickey/
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  Mickey, Disney, and the Public Domain: a 95-year Love Triangle | Duke University School of Law
  
  by Jennifer Jenkins, Director, Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain CC BY 4.0 On January 1, 2024, after almost a century of copyright protection, Mickey Mouse, or at least a version of Mickey Mouse, will enter the public domain. The first movies in which the iconic mouse appeared – Steamboat Willie and the silent version of Plane Crazy[1] – were made in 1928 and works from that year go into the public domain in the United States on New Year’s Day 2024.[2] The public domain has had some famous recent arrivals, but this is the most anticipated entry yet. Why?

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