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The main attraction on last year's Public Domain Day was the entry of Steamboat Willie - the first Mickey Mouse cartoon - into the public domain. This year, we're getting a *dozen* new Mickey cartoons, including the first Mickey talkie:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Mouse_(film_series)#1929

Those 12 shorts represent a kind of creative explosion for the Disney Studios. Those early Mickey cartoons were, each and every one, a hybrid of new copyrighted works and the public domain.

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