That's right, Comrades, the "Steamboat Willie" version of Mickey Mouse is now in the public domain, so now anyone can use it for any purpose.

Not that the character hasn't been parodied before—he has—but parodies are protected speech. This is different. Now you can use this version of Mickey Mouse as your logo, or mascot, or give him a different name and make him do unspeakable things or exploit his image by using him as a propaganda tool.

But why would anyone do such a thing?


https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment ... ic-domain/

Red Square wrote: ↑

1/2/2024, 9:25 pm

The value of mythological creatures in propaganda is hard to overestimate.
 

Very nice. Are these golden oldies, new AI or what?

 

Red Square wrote: ↑

1/3/2024, 7:48 pm

Colonel Obyezyana has been quoted and a link to this topic posted here -

“Not that the character hasn’t been parodied before — he has — but parodies are protected speech,” wrote Colonel Obyezyana of The People’s Cube. “This is different. Now you can use this version of Mickey Mouse as your logo, or mascot, or give him a different name and make him do unspeakable things or exploit his image by using him as a propaganda tool.”

“But why would anyone do such a thing?” he added, before sharing an image of Mickey Mouse as a Soviet prison guard character named Gulag Vasily.

https://hyperallergic.com/864923/mickey ... ost-of-it/

Here's another comment by the article's writer, Detroit-based writer, activist, and multimedia artist, Sarah Rose Sharp:


Use of public domain characters is NOT cultural appropriation, and to say that anyone has had childhood memories of Steamboat Willie legitimately ruined by Disney donations to Israel is patently absurd.

Further, Israel is not "attacking Gaza,"  it is neutralizing Hamas in response to the vile acts of inhuman brutality on October 7, 2023.

Activists may be so accustomed to using such terminology that it just creeps into their writing, but it's a good bet that she was just itching to virtue signal her stance on Israel and Gaza.  

(All that aside, she's a good writer.)

Chedoh wrote: ↑

1/4/2024, 12:56 am

I wonder what Island Micky is taking his rich and powerful friends to.

To the Island of Copyright Infringement Lawsuits because he's not the Steamboat Willie version of M. Mouse. 
 

This film is in black and white but it identifies as in color.

Red Square wrote: ↑

1/8/2024, 9:56 pm

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment ... ic-domain/

Red Square wrote: ↑

1/13/2024, 10:11 pm

I hate to use someone else's anonymously-posted artwork, but...