

The earliest incarnation of Mickey Mouse as well as Minnie Mouse enters the public domain work in 2024 through Steamboat Willie and The Gallopin' Gaucho. Any songs which were written before this time are considered public domain. Unpublished works whose authors died in 1953 enter the public domain. All data in the COD and the database itself are dedicated to the public domain and licensed under the CC0 License. This is because the song and its lyrics were written before 1922. The Spirit of '43: This short is always featured on Donald Duck-based public domain VHS tapes since it is the only Donald Duck short to have entered the public domain state this also causes the covers to be based on images based on the short. The song Molly Do You Love Me is in the public domain.The Mad Doctor: This film is commonly featured on public domain tapes featuring Mickey Mouse since it is one of the few Mickey Mouse cartoons to be in the public domain, the film is almost always paired with the film Minnie's Yoo Hoo, another public domain Mickey short.


But after lobbying from entities such as the Gershwin Family Trust and Disney, U.S. Some Disney shorts are in the public domain, with the most notable shorts being The Mad Doctor (1933), Minnie's Yoo Hoo (1930), The Spirit of '43 (1943), Hooked Bear (1956), and Susie the Little Blue Coupe(1952). Interestingly, Rhapsody in Blue should have gone into the public domain 20 years ago. Du Bois’s The Gift of Black Folk, and Buster Keaton’s Sherlock, Jr. Public domain VHS releases are video releases of material that has fallen into the public domain and are no longer protected by copyright. Starting today anyone can legally remix and republish classics that include Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, W. An example of a public domain VHS release
