Aaaaand the next day, a trailer appeared for "Mickey's Mouse Trap," looking for a distributor and platform... https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/mickey-mouse-slasher-film-trailer-drops-steamboat-willie-public-domain-1235777382/ (link) B
Moi, 12/31/2023: They had more important things to do than extend copyright protections (which they should have left alone years ago), so "Steamboat Willie," among other things, becomes "PD" at the stroke of midnight east coast US tonight... https://news.sky.com/story/mickey-mouse-disney-to-lose-copyright-of-early-version-of-cartoon-character-featured-in-steamboat-willie-13039653 (link) ISTR Warners let at least one Bugs Bunny short lapse, but digitally remastered it after the fact so it could be on one of their Looney Tunes (something) Collections... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/4e9d4234-8751-4c86-9456-81a9eceae5cfn%40googlegroups.com.