The original Betty Boop, the first four Nancy Drew books and Greta Garbo's first talkie are among the many works from 1930 ...

The public will be able to copy and reproduce thousands of copyrighted works from 1930 in the new year, including flirtatious flapper Betty Boop, nine additional Mickey Mouse cartoons and novels from ...

“Winnie the Pooh” is slated to star in a horror flick next year alongside a slew of other iconic Disney characters whose copyright protections have expired — including Bambi, Pinocchio, Peter Pan and ...

The ‘Steamboat Willie’ version of Mickey Mouse is now in the public domain. Filmmakers are taking advantage of that –– for horror movies. Disney, though, maintains the copyright on more modern ...

On January 1, 2026, characters like Popeye and King Kong enter the public domain. After a year of twisted takes on classic characters, what's next?

Los Angeles — Who's the newest horror star that's coming to the screen? M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E. At least two Mickey Mouse-inspired horror movies have been announced since 1928's "Steamboat Willie" — ...

Within hours of Mickey Mouse becoming available on public domain, people wasted no time in turning the iconic Disney character into all kinds of images. On New Year's Day, the Disney character, ...

When we reported on the trailer for Screamboat earlier this year, we wrote that three things in this world were certain: “Death, taxes, and the inevitable public domain horror movie about beloved ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The earliest iteration of Mickey Mouse is on a rampage, barely two days in the public domain. Slashed free of Disney’s copyright as of Monday, the iconic character from “Steamboat ...

The easy thing to do with Popeye is have him kill a bunch of teenagers. That's what a few filmmakers did with Mickey Mouse last year, when the first version of Walt Disney's moneymaking rodent shed ...

LOS ANGELES — Who’s the newest horror star that’s coming to the screen? M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E. At least two Mickey Mouse-inspired horror movies have been announced since 1928’s “Steamboat Willie” — ...