Mickey Mouse’s “Steamboat Willie” version is now in the public domain.. Photo: Getty Images Reports have confirmed that Disney’s original Mickey Mouse from the 1928 film “Steamboat ...

An early Walt Disney movie featuring the first appearance of Mickey Mouse is among the copyrighted ... Steamboat Willie available on YouTube for free back in 2009. "Here is the irony," McCleod ...

The copyright on Mickey Mouse expires ... billion and make Disney one of the most powerful media companies on the planet. But this doesn't mean that Mickey is completely free.

The company pushed so hard for an extension of copyright protections in 1998 that the result was derisively nicknamed the Mickey Mouse Protection ... however. Disney posted it for free on YouTube ...