{"id":72752,"date":"2024-01-07T02:56:01","date_gmt":"2024-01-07T02:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wegotthiscovered.com\/?p=1645149"},"modified":"2024-01-07T02:56:01","modified_gmt":"2024-01-07T02:56:01","slug":"6-things-you-can-and-cant-do-with-mickey-mouse-now-that-steamboat-willie-is-in-the-public-domain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/07\/6-things-you-can-and-cant-do-with-mickey-mouse-now-that-steamboat-willie-is-in-the-public-domain\/","title":{"rendered":"6 things you can and can\u2019t do with Mickey Mouse now that \u2018Steamboat Willie\u2019 is in the public domain"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Time finally caught up with Disney in January of 2024. After decades of hard-fought legal battles, Mickey Mouse<\/a><\/strong> finally entered the public domain.<\/p>\n

Or at least, he sort of did. Put simply, the version of Mickey Mouse introduced in the 1928 animated short Steamboat Willie<\/a> <\/em>now belongs to the people, but the fine print gets a little murky. While enthusiastic opportunists are already gearing up to make as much postmodern Mickey content as the market can soak up, Disney\u2019s attorneys have made it clear that they\u2019ll be happy to take action the second that legal lines are crossed. <\/p>\n

With that in mind, you\u2019ll want to know what you can and can\u2019t do before you borrow money from your parents to make your edgy \u201cFall of the Mouse of Usher\u201d series.<\/p>\n

Can do: Show the Steamboat Willie version of Mickey Mouse sloshed on vodka gimlets, singing \u201cMack the Knife\u201d in a seedy club <\/h2>\n
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First, the basics. Just a few months ago, making a cartoon of 1920s-era Mickey Mouse singing \u201cMack the Knife\u201d would\u2019ve had Disney\u2019s attorneys at your front door faster than the Domino\u2019s guy. Now, you could \u2013 if you wanted to \u2013 make a whole music video in which Mickey musically relays the dangers of Europeans with cutlery. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s because, along with Steamboat Willie, <\/em>the 1928 musical number-turned-jazz standard, \u201cMack the Knife,\u201d composed by Kurt Weill with lyrics by Bertolt Brecht, also entered the public domain in 2024. Other stuff that you could have Mickey do in your home movies thanks to recently lapsed rights: Sing \u201cMakin\u2019 Whoopee,\u201d read All Quiet on the Western Front <\/em>cover to cover, and reenact a French silent film <\/a>about the burning of Joan of Arc.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Can\u2019t do: Show any other version of Mickey Mouse sloshed on vodka gimlets, singing \u201cMack the Knife\u201d in a seedy club\u00a0<\/h2>\n
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This is where things get tricky. While the specific iteration <\/em>of Mickey Mouse portrayed in the animated short Steamboat Willie <\/em>is fair game, creatively speaking, using almost any other version of the character will still get you steamrolled by the most magical legal team on Earth.<\/p>\n

The argument that Disney has spent a lot of money defending is that Mickey Mouse isn\u2019t just a single, nigh-on century-old character. He\u2019s a spectrum of interpretations, each one unique \u2013 actionably so. You\u2019re technically protected if you show the Steamboat Willie <\/em>version of Mickey Mouse dancing on a burning American flag. The version from Fantasia? <\/em>Enjoy your C&D.<\/p>\n

Can do: Make gimmicky Mickey Mouse horror movies<\/h2>\n
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In 2022, A.A. Milne\u2019s Winnie-The-Pooh <\/em>entered the public domain. Almost immediately, Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey <\/em>entered pre-production, pupating into a $100,000 indie slasher that was released the following year, making back more than 50 times its budget.<\/p>\n

The parallels were obvious when a pair of Mickey Mouse-based horror films<\/a> were announced in the first few hours of 2023. Now you, your buddy Kyle, and whoever\u2019s up for holding the boom mic can make your own Steamboat Willie-<\/em>inspired horror films. At least two teams already are, with Mickey Mouse Trap <\/em>and a second, yet-untitled thriller already announced. <\/p>\n

Can\u2019t do: Make gimmicky horror movie featuring any Mickey Mouse-adjacent characters<\/h2>\n
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While Mickey and Minnie Mouse are both up for grabs in their larval, pre-Great Depression-era forms, and can freely be depicted running as many unwary campers over as many table saws as you can imagine, showing Donald Duck laughing and clapping in the corner would be taking things too far. Legally speaking.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because, again, the only aspect of Mickey and Minnie Mouse that\u2019s entered the public domain is Steamboat Willie <\/em>(along with two lesser-known cartoon shorts, The Gallopin\u2019 Gaucho <\/em>and a silent cut of Plane Crazy<\/em>). Ancillary characters like Goofy, Pluto<\/a>, and Walt Disney\u2019s cryogenically frozen head won\u2019t belong to the public until 2028, 2026, and whenever the people take back the tunnels under Disney World, respectively.<\/p>\n

Can do: Draw the Steamboat Willie version of Mickey Mouse kissing Frankenstein\u2019s Monster<\/h2>\n
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This one goes out to a very specific subsection of society. You know what you need, and now you can have it: All the homemade images you can draw of Mickey Mouse from the 1920s kissing fellow public domain inhabitant Frankenstein\u2019s Monster<\/a> right on the mouth.<\/p>\n

Can\u2019t do: Title that drawing \u201cWalt Disney Studios presents: Mickey Mouse kissing Frankenstein\u2019s Monster\u201d<\/h2>\n
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Now, here\u2019s where it gets extra tricky. One of the stipulations of using Mickey Mouse without incurring the wrath of Walt Disney Studios: You can\u2019t make it seem like Disney has anything to do with what you\u2019ve created. Anything that\u2019s seen as damaging to the Disney brand, or as misrepresenting their interests \u2013 I.E., putting Mickey Mouse in a commercial for your recreational weed dispensary, and having him say \u201cHoo, boy, Bob Iger says you should get Bob High-ger!\u201d \u2013 will absolutely get you sued.<\/p>\n\n

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