FILE - An actor dressed as Mickey Mouse greets visitors at the entrance to Magic Kingdom Park at Walt Disney World Resort, April 18, 2022, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Winnie the Pooh and Mickey Mouse have recently entered the public domain, making it possible for artists to use them freely. FILE - Walt Disney, creator of Mickey Mouse, poses at the Pancoast Hotel, Aug. 13, 1941, in Miami, Fla.
” of twisted public domain characters including Bambi and Pinocchio. Pooh going public was followed this year by a moment many thought would never come: the copyright expiration on the original version of Mickey Mouse, as he appeared in the 1928 Walt Disney short, “Steamboat Willie.” The possibility of new stories is vast. So is the possibility of repetition. Classic stories and characters could get, well a bit tiresome.
Many creators were clearly anxious to do something with “The Great Gatsby,” which has been subject to several reinterpretations in very different flavors since it became public in 2021, says Jennifer Jenkins, a professor of law andfrom her perspective, Daisy gets to tell the story from her perspective,” Jenkins says. “We got prequels, we got sequels, we’ve got musicals, TV shows, we’ve gotbecause we always do. These are things that you can do with public domain work.
That has meant a major flowering through the years of fan art and fan fiction, with which the company has a mixed relationship. “Some of it actually is now part of the lore,” Doctorow says. “I think that creatively that is an organization that really embraces that. I think commercially it’s an organization that has really struggled with it.”
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