#public domain cartoons

[infernothechaosgod]

"What voice should public mickey hav-"

May I present my suggestion

✨️None✨️

#P.D mickey #public domain cartoons #public domain #mickey mouse fanart #mickey mouse #oswald and mickey #mickey and oswald #Public oswald #asl #oswald the lucky rabbit

[gnawer-of-table-legs]

Of mice and men who won’t ever take off their work/formal wear, even at the beach.

#Disney #steamboat willie #Mickey mouse #public domain #public domain cartoons #steamboat mickey #td bank #chuck e cheese #charles entertainment cheese #chuck e. cheese #great gatsby #jay gatsby #Qpr #gatsby x steamboat willie #gay #Queerplatonic relationships #TD bank x chuck e cheese

[punster-2319]

“What a performance, D'Artagnan!”

“What a performance!”

Case of the Missing Hare (1942), dir. Chuck Jones

#can’t stop laughing my ass off over this #case of the missing hare #chuck jones #bugs bunny #looney tunes #public domain cartoons

[rjalker]

this mouse doesn't have a name, so I've decided to name them Vinnie Violinist. I've decided Vinnie is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns :)

Vinnie is short for Vincent, which means to prevail or conquer. and I've decided that's about the Public Domain prevailing over the Disney CEO's greed and monopoly :)

This character is from the Public Domain short animation called Fiddlesticks, featuring Flip the Frog. You can watch it here on Youtube, and I have no doubt on the Web Archive or elsewhere!

[ID: A cropped screenshot from the short Flip the Frog animation "Fiddlesticks" (1930", showing an unnamed mouse character holding a violin and smiling. The mouse has black fur, a white face and gloves, large oval shaped eyes, and four whiskers, two on each side of the face. They are wearing a short, red, bell-shaped skirt, and have a long thin tail. In the background is a hill with a tree, and the back of a piano. End ID.]

The name Vinnie Violinist is also public domain because I just came up with it and I said so. You are more than welcome to use this name for this character, or make up your own! They're Public Domain! They belong to everyone!

#Public Domain characters #Fiddlesticks 1930 #Fiddlesticks #Unnamed Public Domain Characters #Vinnie Violinist #Public Domain #described images #cartoon characters #Public Domain cartoons #Public Domain animations #Public Domain cartoon characters

[alanshee-keeper-of-realms]

Me coming up with a crazy ass future where Mickey Mouse is literally a Deity dubbed the Guardian of Childhood like people actually ask him in the future to watch and guide their Children through Childhood safely

His wife Minnie is another Guardian of the Home and Family. The both of them are asked to protect Familys and provide a safe Childhood for any child,

#mickey mouse #minnie mouse #public domain cartoons

[midnightrecording]

A fake Christmas cartoon compilation, with fake VHS filters and even faker corporate AI interruptions.

#michelle pamela lyons #youtube #christmas #public domain cartoons #vhs #Youtube

[publicdomainnow]

#highland park church of god of prophecy #public domain cartoons #freedom #usa #abc #fox #nbc #cbs #pbs #public domain movies #oingo boingo #history #vent #sports #black and white #television #the brown #y2k #us #｡ﾟ･ ✘ 𝚒 𝚠𝚊𝚗𝚗𝚊 𝚋𝚎 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚋𝚘𝚍𝚢'𝚜 𝚋𝚞𝚍𝚍𝚢 ( ooc ) #yeah #long reads #edayfm #stranger things x reader #spy x family #the sims cc #not pr0 just for myself

[prokopetz]

Mickey Mouse's entry into the public domain comes with significant caveats. While the Mickey Mouse who appears in Steamboat Willie (and other media published in 1928 or earlier) is free to use, there's established precedent that specific elements of a character which appear exclusively in later works which still fall under copyright may be protected, if sufficiently distinctive.

(This is the basis of, e.g., the infamous "Sherlock Holmes can't respect women" lawsuit: the Doyle estate, which at the time owned only a tiny handful of the latest-written stories, the others having already fallen into the public domain, argued that specific personality traits which Holmes exhibits only in those later stories are sufficiently distinctive as to be the valid subject of an infringement claim.)

With respect to various elements of Mickey's visual design, such as his red shorts and signature gloves, the matter is clear: just don't use those for another few years. However, there's another thing Mickey's public domain iterations don't exhibit: speech.

The present consensus among copyright scholars seems to be that "a character speaking" is not sufficiently distinctive as to qualify for protection, but the vocal characterisation with which Mickey Mouse is famously associated may so qualify. So, if you want to be scrupulously safe, you can have him talk, but not in that exact specific voice.

Which raises a fun question: what voice would you give him? Wrong answers only.

#media #cartoons #animation #mickey mouse #intellectual property #copyright #public domain #voice acting

[cbatue57]

Classic Episodes: Week 7 of 7

Scratch and His Feathered Friend 🦅

While he and his friends visit Jupiter’s twelfth moon to continue their search for Dr. Destructo, Scratch unexpectedly befriends a giant Superbird.

#colonel bleep #save colonel bleep #cartoon modern #1950s cartoons #1950s tv #mid century animation #public domain animation #public domain cartoons #public domain

[todayontumblr]

Wednesday, January 3.

Set sail for Freedom Island, baby.

Thomas, there's a mouse in the house. But don't worry, Thomas, this isn't a problem, as this isn't just any mouse. This little pal is more than welcome in our house, as it happens. That is because this here is Mickey Mouse, and our smiley rodent friend is here to stay. 

Copyright on the 1928 Disney short animation Steamboat Willie has expired and entered the public domain. Tumblr is being delightfully Tumblr about it. Welcome aboard. *whistles* 

@ifwebefriends

#today on tumblr #mickey mouse #mickey and friends #mickey mouse fanart #steamboat willie #mickey mouse clubhouse #minnie mouse #copyright #public domain #freedom #set sail #vintage cartoon mice on tumblr

[hpkomic]

Captain Mick "Steamboat" Williams, better known as "Steamboat Willie" wrested control of his boat from his corrupt former captain and travels the Mississippi in the search for adventure and treasure, pursued by dangerous river pirates.

First drawing of 2024. Available for commissions. :)

#mickey mouse #steamboat willie #public domain #drawing #art #cartoon #anthro #furry #reimagined #disney

[infernothechaosgod]

The best way to piss off disney is by making a bunch of queer merch

100 percent inspired by @memekeymouse's post go check them out if you like mickey there one of th og's

So what do we make those into? stickers or harms? both oprehaps?

#queer artwork #queer artist #queer community #mickey mouse #mickey mouse fanart #P.D mickey #steamboat willie #public domain cartoons #public domain art #public domain

[enlightenedrobot]

Other Characters you can legally use for your Mickey Mouse project

Mickey Mouse is in the public domain, as is Minnie Mouse and Peg-leg Pete. There's some caveats to that, and I talk about that more in this other post, but for now, let's talk about other characters who you can also use to fill out the cast.

These characters should all be in the public domain, though some characters still have treademarks. I'll get into how to use them safely as we go. Anyways, let's start.

Other Disney Characters

Disney obvciously doesn't advertise this, but there's actually quite a few Disney originals who've actually been in the public domain for a while.

The Mad Doctor never had it's copyright renewed, and so it's very technically the first Mickey Mouse cartoon to enter the public domain. Keep in mind, the version of Pluto featured in the short isn't in the domain just yet, but the Doctor himself is free to use.

What's funny is that Disney would later use a version of Doctor for Epic Mickey. Obviously don't use that version of the character.

Aside from the Mad Doctor, we also have Oswald and Ortensia

Yeah, as it turns out, Oswald's been in the public domain for quite a while, but he's still trademarked by Disney. Easy recommendation... use the original "fat" design of the character and have him go by Lucky.

But before Oswald, we have the Alice Comedies

Everything about the Alice Comedies is Public Domain for a long time, and the Disney corporation very rarely acknowlege these characters existence. Which is a shame because These shorts were some of the first shorts Walt ever produced, and they have the unique gimmick of featuring a live action girl in an animated world.

Everybody already knows about Oswald, but nobody talks about Oswald and Mickey's older brother from these shorts, Julius the Cat

Like... yeah no, it didn't all start with a mouse. Or a rabbit. It started with a cat.

Foxy and Milton Mouse

Both Foxy (top) and Milton (bottom, pictured with his girlfriend Rita Mouse) were characters created by Warner Brothers and Van Beuren respectively to cash in on Mickey's success, and both characters are also in the public domain.

In fact, all Van Beuren cartoons are apparently in the public domain, and I encourage you to find their cartoons and use them as you please.

Fleischer Characters

Betty Boop is probably in the Public Domain, but there's a few caveats with this. From what I can tell, the name Betty Boop is trademarked, but the character herself isn't. Most of the old Betty Cartoons are free to use, but newer incarnations, including the versions used in 1985's The Romance of Betty Boop and 1989's The Betty Boop Movie Mystery are still very much under copyright.

To avoid any legal trouble, I have two big recommendations. Although everybody remembers Betty as having Black hair, in one of the few early instances of Betty being shown in color, she's actually depicted as Redhead.

This is Betty Boop in 1934's Poor Cinderella, and her hair color is pretty clearly red.

The other option is to just make her black.

Though there's been some debate as to whether Betty Boop was intentionally modeled after Esther Lee Jones or not, there's still no denying the influence of Jazz on the character. Betty Boop is a Jazz singer and is often depicted dancing to Cab Calloway. Hell, the Betty Boop musical features Jasmine Amy Rogers as the titular character.

Betty Boop aside, there's an entire world of defunct Betty Boop characters who are definately public domain, including Bimbo and Koko the Clown.

Next year, Popeye's also gonna enter the Domain. So keep an eye out for him too.

Anyways, these are my picks, but obviously this list isn't meant to be comprehensive. There's a ton of old cartoon characters out there who can be freely reinterpreted into newer works. Feel free to add your own favorite public domain cartoon to the list.

#Mickey Mouse #Public Domain #Betty Boop #Koko the Clown #Foxy #Milton Mouse #The Mad Doctor #Oswald the Lucky Rabbit #Alice Comedies #Disney #Walt Disney #Max Fleischer #Warner Brothers. #Cartoons #Animation #Editorial

[punster-2319]

Case of the Missing Hare (1942), dir. Chuck Jones

#tw: flashing gif #case of the missing hare #chuck jones #bugs bunny #looney tunes #public domain cartoons

[rjalker]

Vinnie Violinist is trans :)

Also I keep saying their name in my head as "Vinnie Vincent" so, yes, that is their full name now. They named themselves Vincent Vincent the Violinist.

[ID: A digital drawing of Vinnie Violinist, a cartoon mouse holding a violin, in front of the progress trans pride flag. Vinnie has black fur, with white gloves and a long, oval white face, with large oval shaped eyes and small round ears, and two visible whiskers. They are shirtless, but wear a short red skirt and white gloves on their three-fingered hands. They hold the light-colored wooden violin under their chin, with the bow flourished above their head as they smile. The trans flag has stripes of purple, black, blue, pink, white, yellow, black, and brown, with three circles in the center of black, purple, and yellow. End ID.]

#Rjalker does art #public domain characters #Public domain cartoons #Vinnie Vincent #Vinnie Violinist #Vinnie Vincent the Violinist #lol #described images

[adventurelandia]

Steamboat Willie (1928)

#my gif #Steamboat Willie #1928 #1920s #gif #gifs #vintage #disney #disney gif #vintage disney #animation #cartoons #welcome to the public domain