Each episode, Mickey and friends get a handful of tools from “Toodles,” and they end up using them throughout the show. His line here refers to the “Mousketool,” a little surprise revealed later in ...

The new year marks the nerdiest holiday you maybe didn’t know about: Public Domain Day. But this year’s celebration is extra special. After years of legal battles, “Steamboat Willie,” a 1928 Walt ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook This week’s “cutest thing on the Internet award” surely belongs to Twitter user, @jazzyslo, for ...

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 first version of Disney’s Mickey Mouse, which appeared in the 1928 animated short Steamboat Willie, has lost its copyright protection. Disney is fiercely protective of its copyrights, recently ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The time has come for Mickey Mouse to enter the public domain. After making his debut over 95 ...