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A minor league baseball team trolls Disney with its ‘Steamboat Willie’ jerseys
I've seen enough: the prize for the best use of public domain Mickey Mouse goes to the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp. For its public domain theme night, the
“Steamboat Willie” entered the public domain when the clock struck midnight to ring in 2024, marking the first time that any version of Mickey Mouse has been set free from the litigious grasp of Disney. It’s normal that opportunists will try to manufacture a viral moment by creating things like a Winnie the Pooh slasher film, but the entrance of “Steamboat Willie” into the public domain seemed like it would never come. These public domain Mickey memes have seeped into pop culture, even serving as part of an advertising campaign for the new season of “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.” But Minor League Baseball isn’t exactly as prominent a fixture in entertainment as a late night comedy show, which gives the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp even more leeway to behave in delightfully unhinged ways.
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