New versions of Mickey Mouse remain under copyright ... to spend legal capital on an old cartoon from 1928. The company even put "Steamboat Willie" on YouTube for free.

The 1928 short, "Steamboat Willie," is often cited as the debut of Mickey Mouse, though he did show up in an early short called "Plane Crazy" the same year, in which tried to imitate Charles ...

On Monday, just hours after the 1928 short entered the public domain, a trailer for Mickey’s Mouse Trap dropped on YouTube. Another yet-to-be-titled film was announced Tuesday. Steamboat Willie ...

This version of the character even sports a black-and-white color palette, much like his 1928 counterpart ... David Howard Thornton bring Steamboat Willie to life with the magicians at Quantum ...

“Mickey’s Mouse Trap,” features Mickey Mouse as a serial killer, released on the same day the 1928 Disney short film “Steamboat Willie,” which featured an early version of Mickey ...

A new trailer has been released for Screamboat , a horror movie inspired by Walt Disney’s classic 1928 animated short Steamboat Willie . This is one of several projects trying to capitalize on an evil ...

While Disney retains exclusive rights to its depiction of Mickey Mouse from its own works, the character as depicted in the 1928 short film Steamboat Willie entered public domain at the beginning ...

Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood and Honey has a lot to answer for! Hewes Pictures has released the first poster for a second Steamboat ...