In one of the most talked about copyright expirations of all time….Disney has now been forced to push Steamboat Willie (which is a Mickey Mouse cartoon) into the world.
It’s not cut and dry, in fact, it’s incredibly complicated how we got from Youtube accounts being flagged to users scoring 1 million views overnight with something that has been around for nearly 100 years.
The long and short of the whole works involves lawyers, an evolving US copyright law and a deep dive into the “ownership” of corporate America.
There are divide opinions when it comes to how the world’s most famous mouse might be used (a horror film is already in the works) but for the time being…enjoy the 1928 animated short “Steamboat Willie!”
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