There are further implications for "Steamboat" Mickey's passage into the public domain, as the mouse has had a major hand in setting the last 30 years – if not longer – of U.S. copyright law.

By 1969, Mickey was selling rice, sugar and baking soda in packages now decorated with the eponymous mouse. In 1978, the business moved to a factory topped by a 62-meter illuminated Christmas tree.

Disney Goes Old School With New Mickey Mouse Cartoon Shorts The 2D series aims to pay homage to the art direction and storytelling of Walt Disney and his animators in the 1920s and '30s.

Mickey Mouse isn’t just for kids anymore. A trailer has dropped for a horror comedy film in which Mickey Mouse is the psycho killer – on the first day that the 1928 Disney short film “Steambo… ...

The cartoon depicted Mickey Mouse working aboard a steamboat, making music, and vexing the boat's captain, a large cat named Pete. The slapstick humor, anthropomorphized animals, and objects of ...

Disney's Mickey Mouse started his screen journey in 1928 with a series of shorts, including Plane Crazy and Steamboat Willie. Now the classic cartoon character is coming back with a new short-form ...

No. Walt Disney's first Mickey Mouse film was called 'Plane Crazy.' It was a silent film shown to a test audience in 1928. But distributors weren't excited about it, so it wasn't released to the ...

When you watch a Mickey Mouse cartoon, you don’t expect to say, “What the hell?!” Out loud. Repeatedly. But it’s part and parcel when watching the modern Mickey Mouse shorts from executive ...

Here’s a heartwarming moment of corporate cooperation as cartoon characters owned by four different entertainment conglomerates—Mickey Mouse (Disney), Bugs Bunny (Warner Bros.), Scrat (20th ...

The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse is reportedly coming to an end, as Steamboat Silly, the animated short hitting DIsney+ on July 28 is apparently going to be the last in this particular series.

Mickey Mouse, which premieres on Disney Channel the weekend of June 28 to 30 (8:30 p.m. ET/PT), features the slapstick feel of classic Mickey Mouse as well as contemporary direction and pacing.

Fans of Disney’s “Mickey Mouse” cartoon shorts get excited: There’s a new animated shorts series that debuts on Disney Plus on Nov. 18 — the birthday of the famous mouse.