Mike Olson on Nostr: Mickey Mouse is about to enter the public domain! This is not a drill! US law paused ...

Mickey Mouse is about to enter the public domain! This is not a drill! US law paused the expiration of copyright for decades beginning in the late 1990s, but on January 1, 2024, copyrights issued in 1928 expire. The mouse is included.

npub1hykucplphuhelaxutcw4jw3vuu7gcg42czhqmk7jhchs8vdga4fsj73p33 (npub1hyk…3p33) has an excellent discussion of the legal history and what it means here:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/15/mouse-liberation-front/#free-mickey