#Public Domain
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Mushroom Mickey
134/365 #hunt the mouse
Gonna need a truffle pig for this one...
I am making 365 new versions of Mickey Mouse for the public domain and releasing them under public domain all year long.
You can join the initiative to #hunt the mouse or suggest a theme yourself via my ask box.
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It looks like Mickey has something to say
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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
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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)
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Fyi
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Happy creating folks
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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...
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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.
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#mickey mouse#steamboat willie#disney#copyright#please holy shit that act was so bad why is no one trying to repeal this#public domain
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My entire timeline atm:
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Public Domain Expansion
#mickey mouse#mickey mouse clubhouse#domain expansion#public domain#jjk#jjk memes#jjk fanart#sukuna#ryomen sukuna#jujutsu kaisen#jujutsu sukuna
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Velocity Mickey
136/365 #hunt the mouse
This one sort of attracted me because of it's sheer abstractness- I looked at it and tried to find more context, because maybe velocity meant something else- but couldn't, so I hope it was referring to the concept of velocity lol. I love more abstract themes and concepts and this one was fun to do due to the spreading of speed across one angle. Motion is hard to capture in stills so hopefully it communicates.
I am making 365 new versions of Mickey Mouse for the public domain and releasing them under public domain all year long.
You can join the initiative to #hunt the mouse or suggest a theme yourself via my ask box.
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Today's Public Domain Character
The Unknown from the Glasgow Willy Wonka Experience
The Unknown is like an evil chocolatier who lives in the walls. While the story of Charlie & The Chocolate Factory are copyrighted still (i believe owned by Netflix currently as they bought the rights to all of Roald Dahl's works a few years back)
The Unknown is an original character that was created using AI to write the script for this event. AI creations are not able to be copyrighted. Therefore, its public domain
#glasgow willy wonka#public domain#glasgow willy wonka experience#willy wonka#the unknown#literature
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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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See THIS is what I want dude!
I’m glad everyone just going hog wild with ideas of using Mickey in both good and the bad
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