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    Quote Originally Posted by CJStriker View Post
    Really, I always thought Mickey was PD. So my cover doesn’t count?
    There was a fair to mid-size legal kerfuffle about this in the 1980s when Malibu published THE UNCENSORED MOUSE, comics collecting early Mickey Mouse strips that should have been in the public domain, on the theory that as long as Mickey was not in the title or depicted on the cover, they were on solid legal ground. They might have been but Disney sued anyway, and won. Mickey isn't just copyrighted; he's also trademarked, so it gets murky. But that's just one of many times Disney has bigfooted companies who might have been in the right but couldn't afford the legal battle. there have been similar fights about Sherlock Holmes, the Green Lama, and the Lone Ranger, where the respective copyright/trademark holders got angry about specific public domain material getting reprinted or characters getting pastiche'd, but those came later. Disney is the one that fights most of these fights and they generally win by virtue of sheer size. California lawyers are fond of saying, "you don't **** with the Mouse." Each time Disney crushes another small-press guy for 'unfair competition' or 'trademark violation,' it creates legal precedent that further muddies the waters for this sort of thing.
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    And the truly amazing thing is that Mikey Mouse has to be the most unpopular character that Disney has. There's no movies, cartoons, or comics that star the overrated Mouse.

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    Quote Originally Posted by icctrombone View Post
    And the truly amazing thing is that Mikey Mouse has to be the most unpopular character that Disney has. There's no movies, cartoons, or comics that star the overrated Mouse.
    Actually, there are plenty of Mickey Mouse comic books, and they sell especially well in Europe. There are also plenty of Mickey animations on Disney's TV and cable venues.

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    Quote Originally Posted by icctrombone View Post
    And the truly amazing thing is that Mikey Mouse has to be the most unpopular character that Disney has. There's no movies, cartoons, or comics that star the overrated Mouse.
    Seriously? Look again.
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    Believe it or not, we already have a countdown to Christmas here in the Philippines. On midnight of September 1, the start of the "Ber months", radio stations will play one token Christmas carol, and decorations starting popping up, slowly at first. So in that spirit (pun intended)…



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    Quote Originally Posted by Greg Hatcher View Post
    Seriously? Look again.
    I stand corrected but of all the properties Disney owns, I think it's the least selling. Star Wars and Marvel dwarf anything the Mouse does.

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    Quote Originally Posted by icctrombone View Post
    I stand corrected but of all the properties Disney owns, I think it's the least selling. Star Wars and Marvel dwarf anything the Mouse does.
    True in North America, but not in the rest of the world. Mickey Mouse comics sell very well in Europe, and I believe they are still popular in a number of other countries, such as Brazil and Egypt.

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    Quote Originally Posted by icctrombone View Post
    This subject is kind of hard. I posted a cover with the invisible man but without a character that wasn't public domain. I changed it to a Savage Dragon cover with the public domain Daredevil. Mickey Mouse is without a doubt owned by Disney. They will sue the pants off of anyone trying to use him without paying. I notice that there are more than a few covers that don't meet the mark this week.
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    There's no way Disney would have allowed Mickey to enter the public domain before he officially does a few years from now (95 years after his creation).
    Quote Originally Posted by Greg Hatcher View Post
    There was a fair to mid-size legal kerfuffle about this in the 1980s when Malibu published THE UNCENSORED MOUSE, comics collecting early Mickey Mouse strips that should have been in the public domain, on the theory that as long as Mickey was not in the title or depicted on the cover, they were on solid legal ground. They might have been but Disney sued anyway, and won. Mickey isn't just copyrighted; he's also trademarked, so it gets murky. But that's just one of many times Disney has bigfooted companies who might have been in the right but couldn't afford the legal battle. there have been similar fights about Sherlock Holmes, the Green Lama, and the Lone Ranger, where the respective copyright/trademark holders got angry about specific public domain material getting reprinted or characters getting pastiche'd, but those came later. Disney is the one that fights most of these fights and they generally win by virtue of sheer size. California lawyers are fond of saying, "you don't **** with the Mouse." Each time Disney crushes another small-press guy for 'unfair competition' or 'trademark violation,' it creates legal precedent that further muddies the waters for this sort of thing.
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    ETA: Drat! Peter Pan isn't in the public domain!

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    My vote is for Nschornhorst and that pairing of famous detectives. By the by, how long do you figure it would take Holmes to deduce that Batman was Bruce Wayne? I'd say thirty seconds, and that's a conservative estimate!
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