Early Mickey Mouse Character Tops OpenSea After Copyright Expiry

A surge to the apical of the OpenSea trending database marks a caller section for an aboriginal mentation of Mickey Mouse. Featured primitively successful the 1928 abbreviated movie “Steamboat Willie”, this quality precocious entered the nationalist domain.

January 1st marked a important alteration for Mickey Mouse’s aboriginal version, arsenic its copyright expired. United States copyright law, which caps the duration astatine 95 years, facilitated this shift.

As a result, Disney’s exclusive rights to this aboriginal portrayal of 1 of animation’s astir cherished characters concluded, starring to a flurry of enactment connected the fashionable NFT marketplace.

Creators and collectors alike seized the accidental to observe and monetize this now-public domain character.

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