#mickey !! ✩

[opencharacters]

It looks like Mickey has something to say

#mickey mouse #public domain #copyright

[tanookitalez]

the undying love of mickey mouse

#mickey mouse #minnie mouse #steamboat willie #michael is finally public domain #art #wendym #comics

[shitty-check-please-aus]

What we need to do is convince all the disney adults in america that high speed rail would be a preferable way of getting to disneyworld compared to driving or flying. We could maybe harness their fondness for the monorail or something, but this is a group of people that has time, income, and passion that we could leverage. If we could direct 5% of the enthusiasm they have for limited edition popcorn buckets into calling their representatives and demanding high-speed interstate rail, we could get it by 2030

#at this point I don't care whether rail is privately or publicly funded #I'll ride the Mickey Mouse Express if it means not having to drive or fly everywhere #if you're on the disneyland side of the country I just don't have as strong a grasp on your psychology as a demographic #but I went to school with some twice a year disneyworld people #if you are a disney adult and you're reading this please don't take it as an insult #I don't think it comes off that way but you never know

[pjdraws]

Happy Mickey Mouse is mine day

#mickey mouse #winnie the pooh #pjdraws #comics #art #web comics #public domain #steamboat willie #pooh bear #alt text #alt text comics #Winnie & Willie #Willie & Winnie

[hell0mega]

people are drawing Steamboat Willie Mickey doing all this crazy shit and whatnot, but you could always do that. you can do that now, with current Mickey, just fine. it's fanart and it's legally protected. hell you could take Disney-drawn Mickey and put a caption about unions or whatever on it and it would still be protected under free speech and sometimes even parody law.

what is special about public domain is that you can SELL him. you could take a screenshot and sell it on a tshirt. you can use him to advertise your plumbing business. people have already uploaded and monetized the original film.

you could always have Mickey say what you want, but now you can profit off it.

#steamboat willie #Mickey mouse #Disney #public domain #you can't trademark him as like a logo or mascot of your plumbing business i just mean like #you can slap him in your commercial or side of the van #i just have seen soooo many people make ORIGINAL art of him and I'm like #no that's not the point!! you can already do that!!! #(obvs if it's a comic or something talking about him being free or whatever then yeah like i get it) #(but those people who put him as a fighter in their game?? Quinton reviews uploading the original video?? boss shit) #(THAT'S what it's about)

[skiplo-wave]

Fyi

( x )

Happy creating folks

#mickey mouse #minnie mouse #public domain

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

#mickey mouse #twitter #tweets #tweet #meme #memes #funny #lol #humor

[neoyi]

Happy Public Domain Day!

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⭐Prince Marine: The Dandy Robot / Art Commission / Ko-Fi / Itch.io / Bluesky⭐

#the great gatsby #mickey mouse #neoyi arts #here it is the most unhinged thing I've EVER drawn #steamboat willie

[spectralid]

Steamboat Willie has been in public domain for the last three days, and yet I've seen no one post this Pop Team Epic strip...

#mickey mouse #public domain #bkub #pop team epic #μzings

[prokopetz]

Mickey Mouse's entry into the public domain comes with significant caveats. While the Mickey Mouse who appears in Steamboat Willie (and other media published in 1928 or earlier) is free to use, there's established precedent that specific elements of a character which appear exclusively in later works which still fall under copyright may be protected, if sufficiently distinctive.

(This is the basis of, e.g., the infamous "Sherlock Holmes can't respect women" lawsuit: the Doyle estate, which at the time owned only a tiny handful of the latest-written stories, the others having already fallen into the public domain, argued that specific personality traits which Holmes exhibits only in those later stories are sufficiently distinctive as to be the valid subject of an infringement claim.)

With respect to various elements of Mickey's visual design, such as his red shorts and signature gloves, the matter is clear: just don't use those for another few years. However, there's another thing Mickey's public domain iterations don't exhibit: speech.

The present consensus among copyright scholars seems to be that "a character speaking" is not sufficiently distinctive as to qualify for protection, but the vocal characterisation with which Mickey Mouse is famously associated may so qualify. So, if you want to be scrupulously safe, you can have him talk, but not in that exact specific voice.

Which raises a fun question: what voice would you give him? Wrong answers only.

#media #cartoons #animation #mickey mouse #intellectual property #copyright #public domain #voice acting

[penny-anna]

something very funny about only the very early Mickey Mouse shorts going into the public domain is that early Mickey is a dick. it's now legal to make commercial works about Mickey Mouse but only if you depict him as a real shithead. :)

#mickey mouse #steamboat willie

[sixty-silver-wishes]

gotta say, I love the direction we're taking steamboat willie mickey mouse in now that he's public domain. I was expecting tumblr to rip him apart and be like "we feast on his corpse" (and I would have been on board with that lol), but we've decided that he's one of us now. he's a hero of the working class, newly liberated from his capitalist oppressors who sought to shackle him to traditional values and conservatism for decades. he's supportive of leftist causes. he's trans. he's married to jay fucking gatsby.

we're not celebrating that mickey mouse is dead.

we're celebrating that mickey mouse is free.

and that's beautiful.

#mickey mouse #steamboat willie

[mattpresents]

#mickey mouse #steamboat willie #disney #copyright #please holy shit that act was so bad why is no one trying to repeal this #public domain

[dd-the-man-without-fear]

My entire timeline atm:

#Mickey Mouse #Steamboat Willie #public domain

[negativepeanuthoarder]

#mickey mouse #steamboat willie #public domain #defunctland

[nickpeppermint]

They didn't waste a second...

#public domain was a mistake #y'all ain't do NOTHING fun with it #Disney #Mickey Mouse #Steamboat Willie #Animation #horror #creepypasta parody #meme #shitpost #screenshot #why is it always quick cashgrab horror ripoff that isn't even scary #do you have any idea how many cool things you can do with this domain #yall had Winnie The freaking Pooh in public domain and there was NOTHING but dumb horror