Is Mickey Mouse in the Public Domain?

Steamboat Willie

It’s hard to believe. But the modern-day Walt Disney Company, with its theme parks around the world, multiple billion-dollar movie franchises like Marvel and Star Wars, animation studios, streaming channels, TV networks, and any number of other divisions, all started with a simple black-and-white cartoon. It’s called Steamboat Willie, and it features an early version …

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Fair Use for Content Creators

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Weird Al Yankovic is a one-of-a-kind artist in the music world. He sells out shows. Records best-selling albums. Even got played a lot on MTV – back when they played music videos, that is. But what sets him apart from, say, other artists who rose to fame in the 1980s like Madonna, is that Weird …

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