AROUND the world, Disney's Mickey Mouse is arguably the most famous rodent – and it would seem logical that people would use his name wherever they felt it suitable.

Some versions of Mickey are still under copyright. Here's the lowdown on what's fair game and what isn't.

Mickey Mouse spawned a franchise that over the following century would earn more than $80 billion and make Disney one of the most powerful media companies on the planet.

Mickey: The Story of a Mouse director Jeff Malmberg talks the character's complicated history and what he was surprised they allowed in.

Early Mickey Mouse is now in the public domain—and AI is already on the case Experimental AI image generator trained on Disney's 1928 cartoons can make eldritch horrors.