The New Year brought the excellent news that Steamboat Willie-era Mickey Mouse has finally entered the public domain, after decades of Disney, er, convincing Congress to keep extending its copyrights.

Two horror films and a video game featuring Mickey Mouse were announced just hours after Disney's earliest versions of the cartoon character entered the public domain in the US. It means the early ...

Mickey Mouse will appear in new, non-Disney creative works after 95 years of copyright protection of the character expired on Jan. 1. With this, early versions of Mickey Mouse are now part of the ...

The movie is expected to be out in March. A Mickey Mouse horror film trailer was released on January 1, the day that Disney's copyright on the earliest versions of the cartoon character expired in the ...

If you haven’t heard, the Steamboat Willie version of Mickey Mouse is officially in the public domain, and Nightmare Forge Games wasted no time announcing a horror game starring that version of Disney ...

As 2023 turned into 2024, Steamboat Willie, the original Mickey Mouse cartoon, entered the public domain. Hours after the announcement, game developer Nightmare Forge Games announced a new survival ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. News and opinion about video games, television, movies and the internet. On January 1, New Year’s Day, a few stories were spread ...

While Disney has successfully prolonged its copyrights to the original, silent version of Mickey Mouse for decades, that time has finally come to an end. The original version of the character shown in ...

It didn't take long for someone to cash in with a horror-inspired take on Mickey Mouse. An earlier version of Mickey featured in Disney's 1928 short film "Steamboat Willie" entered the public domain ...

Nightmare Forge Games has changed the name of Infestation 88 to Infestation: Origins following controversy surrounding the Mickey Mouse game’s use of that Neo-Nazi reference number. On X, Nightmare ...

Disney's Mickey Mouse has appeared in video games as far back as the Atari 2600. Here's every game Mickey Mouse has starred or appeared in, not including cameos.