Happy New Year from Steamboat Willie

[Jon123Jon]

Joy to the world!
On January 1st, the 97-year-long copyright restriction on Mickey Mouse finally went away.
At least for screen captures from Steamboat Willie, the first Mickey Mouse movie, made in 1928.
Other Mickey Mouse images, like from the 1940s-50s comic books, are still under copyright protection.

I am so proud to be an American (insert waving flag here), n a country where one of our biggest, most prosperous companies made its fortune from... a rat. Very cool! And of course we all know (say Yes) that Mickey Mouse is really a western pack rat, a nice little animal, though with a propensity to chew vegetable-plastic-coated Toyota ignition wires. A good, decent rat, so unlike its evil huge Norway rat cousins that terrorize New Yorkers.

Happy New Year!

[handrawn]

rat?

some 'mus' take surely

worth noting countries other than the USA may have their own copyright rules

[gwpriester]

Well Walt called him Mickey Mouse. We live among the pack rats here in New Mexico and I must be missing the resemblance.

[gwpriester]

Mickey is now free to be Steam Punk Willie.

[handrawn]

oh that is nice Gary... AI is it

[gwpriester]

Yes, AI and four variations in under 30 seconds!

[Jon123Jon]

That's beautiful, Gary! How long til we get Xara AI?
And my girlfriend also complained about calling Mickey Mouse a rat.
"Jon, he's Mickey MOUSE!"
Am losing it at 79, I guess.

[Boy]

I am so proud to be an American (insert waving flag here), n a country where one of our biggest, most prosperous companies made its fortune from... a rat. Very cool! And of course we all know (say Yes) that Mickey Mouse is really a western pack rat, a nice little animal, though with a propensity to chew vegetable-plastic-coated Toyota ignition wires. A good, decent rat, so unlike its evil huge Norway rat cousins that terrorize New Yorkers.

Yeah, sure, blame the foreigners!

[handrawn]

bugs bunny could be called a hare as well as a rabbit, although in the US I understand a hare is called a 'jack rabbit' so he may have had an excuse....

[gwpriester]

Things are really slow around here I guess.