Nightmare Forge games has announced Infestation 88, a new horror game that aims to blend terror with nostalgia (in the vein of Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Hon...
TL;DR: you can use the mickey character in derivative works (copyright), but you cant use the character in a way that makes people think the work is made by disney (trademark)
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Mickey Mouse trademark expires at midnight
Horror game devs at 1 second past midnight:
It looks like it was made in that time frame too.
Copyright and trademark are two different things. Only copyright expires
Here’s a summary of what you can and cannot do to mickey: https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/mickey/
TL;DR: you can use the mickey character in derivative works (copyright), but you cant use the character in a way that makes people think the work is made by disney (trademark)
Uh oh, he’s wearing gloves
public domain :)
Not with gloves he ain’t