Mickey Mouse is finally in the public domain — here's what that means

New Year’s Day now doubles as Public Domain Day, when a fresh trove of vintage artistic creations becomes available each year for anyone to use as copyrights expire. And at least emblematically, the big game this year is the first cinematic iterations of Mickey Mouse.

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