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I wonder if people are thinking they can get away with it because someone got away with making a Winnie The Pooh slasher movie- which has been referred to a lot over in reference to Steamboat Willie going public domain. I think people forget that Disney don't own Winnie The Pooh, it was around a good 40 years before Disney made any cartoons, and said movie doesn't use anything specific to the Disney portrayals.

What also isn't mentioned is Steamboat Willie isn't the only Mickey cartoon in the public domain- so are Plane Crazy and The Galloping Gaucho- albeit only the silent versions of those two (as they were originally made that way, with sound added for a release the following year), the sound versions won't be until next year (along with another 13 Mickey cartoons).

It's more surprising that we haven't seen newer adaptations of Pooh but I suspect the Disney version is so strong in people's mind that a new adaptation would be seen as inferior.

I've seen the poster and trailer for the Mickey slasher and there are a lot of elements which would fall under both copyright and trademark infringement, the face of Mickey in the poster is similar to the one in the colour cartoons logos which are still under copyright.