Other notable Disney works in the public domain in 2025 are Disney’s first “Silly Symphony” short, titled “The Skeleton Dance,” directed by Walt Disney and animated by Ub Iwerks.

More Mickey Mouse cartoons and “The Skeleton Dance” animated short will enter the public domain on January 1, 2025. Nearly a year ago on January 1, 2024, “Steamboat Willie,” and the ...

While not starring Mickey Mouse, there’s another Disney animated short that will soon enter the Public Domain in 2025 as well: The Skeleton Dance. This first installment in the Silly Symphony ...

Steamboat Willie, lMickey Mouse, 1928). Many iconic copyrighted works (most notably, Mickey Mouse) that were first published prior to 1929 fell into the public domain in the United States starting ...

Last month, we ran a piece about some of the most questionable uses of the Mickey Mouse character after Steamboat Willie hit the public domain. Few, if any, though are as off-putting as some of ...

Happy New Year Mickey Mouse ... “Mickey’s Mouse Trap” coming later this year. And you’re not alone. You’re following your animated pal Winnie the Pooh into the public domain’s wild ...

The first film starring the character who would become Mickey Mouse, a back-and-white cartoon called "Steamboat Willie," entered the public domain as of Jan. 1, 2024. It should have become public ...

Jennifer Jenkins, director of the Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain ... You also can’t slap a Mickey Mouse logo at the start of an animated movie as consumers might think the ...

With Mickey ... sound short cartoons. On top of that, it introduced Mickey Mouse to the world. Due to copyright law, Steamboat Willie and its imagery entered into the public domain on the first ...

Disney's copyright ownership of the seminal short film, which marked the screen debuts of both Mickey and Minnie Mouse, officially expired Monday. The classic cartoon stars the beloved mascot as ...

It's now Jan. 4, and in the four short days of 2024 so far, a certain cartoon mouse has ... entered the public domain. He belongs to us all now. A whole spectrum of Mickey-related posts and ...