On Aug. 12, 1928, an ambitious young man named Walt Disney filed a copyright application for Mickey Mouse, a new animated character he’d created alongside animator Ub Iwerks. That turned out to be a ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook It’s been 15 years, and I still can’t believe how much I liked Epic Mickey. Beginning life as an ...

The lawsuit seeks clarity around whether companies can exploit the earliest depiction of Mickey Mouse from a 1928 animated short. By Winston Cho Disney is continuing to enforce its intellectual ...

Disney secured a significant, if quiet, legal advantage this month when Morgan & Morgan withdrew its lawsuit seeking a federal ruling on the law firm’s ability to use imagery from the 1928 short ...