“If I draw a picture of Mickey Mouse, I owe Walt Disney a $190,000 fine ... holders recognized that another extension would face a storm of protest, and so they didn’t try.

On January 1, three early Mickey Mouse cartoons entered the public domain ... Pierre-Carl Langlais uploaded an AI model to Hugging Face that has been trained on those public domain cartoons ...

Is Mickey Mouse’s career as the face of Walt Disney Co. ending? Not quite, but a Disney-centric satirical website inspired false claims about Mickey’s replacement by invoking real news about a ...