Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The new year marks the nerdiest holiday you maybe didn't know about: Public Domain Day. But this year's celebration is extra ...

The first version of Disney's Mickey Mouse, which appeared in the 1928 animated short Steamboat Willie, has lost its copyright protection. Featured Video Although Disney successfully fought to keep ...

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 ...

Gordon was a reporter for TIME, based in the London bureau. Still image from the 1928 cartoon Steamboat Willie, which shows the character Mickey Mouse steering a boat. Still image from the 1928 ...