Disney's modern audience likely can't make head or tail out of Quasimodo because he isn't wasting his time moping on twatter about the trials and tribulations of being disabled and marginalized.
Boy, and I glad the original movie tackles so many potentially "problematic" subject matters Disney still has no idea how to make a live-action remake of it.
Yeah the new Ren and Stimpy looks like shit. But the franchise was always doomed to produce any kind of profit or longevity outside the unique timeframe it was created in.
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So does that make rubberhose Mickey public domain?
His depiction from Plane Crazy and Steamboat Willie is fair game now.
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Maybe Disney might get angry if you colorize him and give him his now iconic red pants in the process, but I doubt that's enough for them to win in court.
The gloves might be a different matter, though. But they got introduced in 1929 and so will become public domain as well in like next year.
Dressing him up as the Sorcerer's Apprentice? You'll have to wait until Fantasia goes into the public domain.
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