Disney Mickey Mouse Public Domain 2024. This means that those characters and stories can be. There are a dozen new mickey cartoons — he speaks for the first time and dons the familiar white gloves,” said jennifer jenkins, director of duke’s center for the study of the.
What does this mean for the beloved mouse? The earliest form of mickey mouse loses copyright protection in the united states in 2024, when the cartoon, which debuted in that 1928 short where the mouse pilots a steamboat.