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 ...

As of today, the traditionally protective Walt Disney Co will have to deal with an onslaught of Mickey Mouse parodies ... anticipating a Steamboat Willie free-for-all, think again.

which was the first appearance of Mickey Mouse in the 1928 film of the same name, became available in the public domain. It marked the first time in history Disney's famous mouse was free for all ...

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 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 ...