Mickey Mouse: Copyrights and wrongs
Mickey Mouse is no longer under US copyright but it鈥檚 not all black and white.
Disney鈥檚 copyright on 鈥楽teamboat Willie鈥�, which features the earliest version of Mickey Mouse, expired in the US on New Year鈥檚 Day - meaning the image is in the public domain and free to use鈥� with some caveats. So what鈥檚 next for Mickey?
Some creatives have already sprung into action. Noor Nanji, a 大象传媒 Culture reporter, tells us about an upcoming Mickey Mouse slasher movie and a video game.
We also hear from Erin Delmore, the 大象传媒鈥檚 North America Business Correspondent and Jennifer Jenkins, a professor of intellectual property law at Duke University, about how public domain laws work. Plus we pitch some ideas of our own.
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Presenter: Hannah Gelbart
Producers: Alex Rhodes, Benita Barden, Adam Chowdhury and Emily Horler
Editors: Verity Wilde and Simon Peeks
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