On January 1, Mike Neville gave Midjourney the following prompt: “Steamboat Willie drawn in a vintage Disney style, black and white. He is dripping all over with white gel.” There’s no polite way to ...

On January 1, three early Mickey Mouse cartoons entered the public domain in the US, and AI experimenters have wasted no time taking advantage of it. On Monday, a digital humanities researcher named ...

It's now Jan. 4, and in the four short days of 2024 so far, a certain cartoon mouse has been so extensively used and abused online that you're no doubt already aware of this fact: Mickey Mouse, at ...

The arrival of Steamboat Willie—and with it, the first steps of Mickey Mouse himself—into the public domain at the start of 2024 has been a milestone that, in just under three weeks, already seen a ...

In the modern age of legal parameters and intense copyright restrictions, it is unsurprising that the vast majority of characters who grace our screens are ferociously protected by a web of ...

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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 asterisks ...

January 1, 2024 won’t just be the start of a new year. It’ll also see Mickey and Minnie Mouse enter the public domain. Come that date, Disney’s exclusive copyright on the two iconic characters’ ...

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The giant stuffed bear, its face a twisted smile, lumbers across the screen. Menacing music swells. Shadows mask unknown threats. Christopher Robin begs for his life. And is that a ...

Flathead catfish, opportunistic predators native to the Mississippi River basin, have the potential to decimate native and ...