Minstrels would wear white gloves so that their hands would stand out on stage. At a time when cartoons were made in black and white, animators realised that the same principle could help cartoon ...

Mickey's Rival sees the debut of Mortimer Mouse, who would resurface as a recurring ... the default image of a mad scientist. In this cartoon, released shortly after Snow White and the Seven ...

Filmmakers working in the ever-expanding genre of public domain horror will soon have even more Mickey Mouse to play with.

January 1, 2025 will see a slew of classic Disney properties, including those featuring Mickey Mouse, enter the Public Domain. These works from 1929 can now be shared, copied, and built upon by other ...

Popeye joining Mickey Mouse in the public domain, along with the first appearance of Mickey's signature white gloves.

This year saw one of the most zealously-guarded corporate empires of intellectual property spring a leak, as all the Magic ...

A trailer for a slasher film, featuring a masked killer dressed as Mickey Mouse, was released on 1 January, the day that Disney's copyright on the earliest versions of the cartoon character ...