What happens when anyone can use Mickey Mouse ... can’t look like the Disney design or wear a red shirt. With characters like Sherlock Holmes, who appeared in different stories over 40 years ...

“I keep telling you,” Sherlock Holmes said (he had been fully in the public domain since 2023 and was showing Mickey the ropes), “this kind of column has always been legal. It’s parody.” ...

Fritz Lang’s trailblazing sci-fi epic Metropolis, the final Sherlock ... of the Mickey and Minnie Mouse copyright in 2024 — Arthur Conan Doyle’s famed detective Sherlock Holmes is officially ...