The "Steamboat Willie" version of Mickey Mouse became public domain on Jan. 1, 2024. Is Disney losing Mickey? Current artists and creators will be able to make use of Mickey, but with major limits.

"The haunting of Steamboat Willie hours after hitting the public domain is fast work. #Infestation88 gives Mickey Mouse and his House of Mouse a whole new meaning," they wrote on X.

A Steamboat Willie slasher flick was always going to have a pretty hefty dose of goofiness (though Goofy himself is not in the public domain until 2028), but this “Screamboat” monster reveal ...

Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie," the first cartoon to star Mickey Mouse, is the star of a new horror trailer after becoming public domain Monday. A trailer for a slasher film "Mickey’s Mouse ...

Unsurprisingly, it took less than a day for a Steamboat Willie horror movie to be announced, and the first reveal came from a director who is no stranger to the "mascot horror" genre. Director ...

Screamboat is the second Steamboat Willie horror movie to hit screens in the last eight months. It subverts the iconic Disney animated short that popularized the character Mickey Mouse, which is ...

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A second, as-yet-untitled horror film centered on Steamboat Willie, the earliest iteration of Disney’s beloved children’s character Mickey Mouse, is in the works from director-producer Steven ...

The company even made ‘Steamboat Willie’ available on YouTube for free back in 2009. "Here is the irony," McCleod says. " Steamboat Willie is based on a popular film at the time." ...

At the very least, now that Steamboat Willie is in the public domain, there's always the potential for him to crop up in more interesting ways. Or maybe just a better looking horror game.

On January 1, 2024, an early version of Disney’s mascot, featured in the 1928 short film, “Steamboat Willie,” entered the public domain for the first time. CNN values your feedback 1.

When Walt Disney first released the cartoon short film Steamboat Willie in November 1928, it was groundbreaking. It was one of the cartoons to use synchronized sound, and would go on to become one ...