Early Mickey Mouse is now in the public domain—and AI is already on the case Experimental AI image generator trained on Disney's 1928 cartoons can make eldritch horrors.

A Walt Disney movie featuring the first appearance of Mickey Mouse moved into the public domain on New Year’s Day. The 1928 short film "Steamboat Willie" introduces audiences to a non-speaking ...

More Mickey Mouse cartoons and “The Skeleton Dance” animated short will enter the public domain on January 1, 2025. More Mickey Cartoons Entering Public Domain Nearly a year ago on January 1 ...

The 1928 short 'Steamboat Willie,' featuring both Mickey and Minnie Mouse, will become public domain in 2024. By The Associated Press M-I-C-K-E-Y will soon belong to you and me. With several ...

From Winnie the Pooh to Mickey Mouse, iconic children's characters have entered the public domain and are becoming fodder for horror flicks. Disney's 'Steamboat Willie' version of Mickey Mouse is ...

The silent film "Plane Crazy," released in 1928, is the first appearance of Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. ... and they were close to officially signing with Mintz to keep creating Oswald cartoons.

With several asterisks, qualification and caveats, Mickey Mouse in his earliest form will be the leader of the band of characters, films and books that will become public domain in 2024.

Before he became the biggest mouse in the biz, Mickey Mouse welcomed audiences to the movies. Beginning in 1928, the mischievous Walt Disney icon starred in short films that played before the main ...

Walt Disney, creator of Mickey Mouse, poses at the Pancoast Hotel in Miami, Fla., on Aug. 13, 1941. An animation innovator, Disney featured his favorite character in "Steamboat Willie," the first ...

He then dons his vintage Mickey Mouse mask, which wasn't a thing in 1928, and starts killing ... The other thing that happens in 2025 is that a few more early Mickey Mouse cartoons enter the ...

For nearly 100 years, Mickey Mouse has transformed from a hand-drawn black-and-white cartoon character to an international pop culture icon that is one of the most identifiable figures in the ...

This review originally ran March 19, 2022, in conjunction with the film’s world premiere at SXSW. It is easy, perhaps, to take Mickey Mouse for granted, both as an icon and a character.