In 2007, Disney revamped the Disney Animation Studios logo to include a snippet of Steamboat Willie’s Mickey. The Mouse House being what it is (and rightly so), trademarked that logo.

for example by appearing as a logo at the beginning of an animation." What does all of this mean for Mickey Mouse? What does it matter if one particular version of a cartoon character enters the ...

In other words, you can’t sell merch with a Mickey Mouse logo as consumers might think you are offering a Disney-sponsored product. You also can’t slap a Mickey Mouse logo at the start of an ...

Mickey Mouse will appear in new, non-Disney creative works after 95 years of copyright protection of the character expired on Jan. 1. With this, early versions of Mickey Mouse are now part of the ...

"Trademark law is entirely about protecting brands, logos and names — like Mickey Mouse as a logo, or the name Mickey Mouse," McLeod says. "And of course, trademark law has no end," adds Harvard ...

Mickey Mouse, one of the most beloved characters of all time, is set to become public domain in 2024. However, it's a bit of a complicated situation as only the earliest form of Mickey from ...

Great news for any creatives itching to appropriate a wholly specific, old-timey version of Mickey Mouse without legal woes. “Steamboat Willie,” a short film featuring an early incarnation of ...

The company pushed so hard for an extension of copyright protections in 1998 that the result was derisively nicknamed the Mickey ... its logo to incorporate the “Steamboat Willie” mouse.

Time to cancel those surveys asking whether anyone would confuse the logo of Deadmau5 with the head of Mickey Mouse. By Eriq Gardner Time to cancel those surveys asking whether anyone would ...

Anyone getting any ideas of starting a film company or a theme park with mouse ears as their logo have another think coming... Next year, Mickey Mouse’s first screen release, the 1928 short ...

The DJ Deadmau5 is locked in a legal battle with Disney over his mouse-ears logo which the entertainment corporation says infringes its famous Mickey Mouse trademark. The electronic musician ...