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Disney invests $1 billion in OpenAI, licenses 200 characters for AI video app Sora (fedia.io)
submitted 23 hours ago by miguel@fedia.io to c/technology@lemmy.world
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"Three-year deal lets users create AI videos of Mickey Mouse, Darth Vader, and more."

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/12/disney-invests-1-billion-in-openai-licenses-200-characters-for-ai-video-app-sora/

I'm sure that's going to take about 30 minutes before they begin to regret the videos coming out of it...

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[โ€“] merde@sh.itjust.works 35 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)

licenses mickey mouse ๐Ÿค”

On January 1, 2024, the copyrights of the first three animated Mickey Mouse cartoons and their portrayal of Mickey Mouse expired in the United States, and they entered the public domain. They are the silent versions of the cartoons Plane Crazy and The Gallopin' Gaucho, as well as the sound cartoon Steamboat Willie. Newer versions of Mickey Mouse remain copyright-protected.

collapsed inline mediaSteamboat Willie 1928 Poster

[โ€“] phaedrus@piefed.world 22 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

In the very quote you pasted:

Newer versions of Mickey Mouse remain copyright-protected.

It's only the version that was in those original cartoons that is public domain.

[โ€“] Peffse@lemmy.world 8 points 21 hours ago

It was wild seeing fair-use Mickey Mouse in a divorce lawyer's commercial.

[โ€“] ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

Mickey Mouse is still protected under the passing off law. Only the actual cartoons are public domain.