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.
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Happy Public Domain Day!
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⭐Prince Marine: The Dandy Robot / Art Commission / Ko-Fi / Itch.io / Bluesky⭐
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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.
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duolingo owl came for steamboat willie
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"Now let's go get Tigger", said Pooh.
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I hadn't been PLANNING on doing anything in regards to the early Mickey Mouse cartoon "STEAMBOAT WILLIE" entering the public domain this past Monday until I went on Facebook. lol
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March 2023 ----> January 2024
It's been a long journey and now we're finally here. Happy (belated) Public Domain Day to Winchester and Willamina !!
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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. :)
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