As you well know, the Steamboat Willie version of Mickey Mouse is now in the public domain in the US, meaning you can use a version of that Mickey (or any other newly public domain work) in our Gaming Like It’s 1928 Public Domain Game Jam. Also, we’re already seeing some of the expected effort to put down low quality stakes, including the inevitable Mickey Mouse horror film and Mickey Mouse horror video game.
While unsurprising and easy, in the meantime we’re also seeing lots of folks uploading the original Steamboat Willie in a variety of places. You can find lots of versions uploaded to YouTube. But just because Mickey is public domain in the US, that does not mean that Big Mouse will simply stop the copyright claiming.
Matt Lee uploaded his own copy only to quickly get notified that the video was being blocked in certain countries (as a side note, Bluesky content is now public, so you can see the posts on Bluesky without an account).
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