Mickey mouse became public and the fukkery is coming
Mickeys mouse trap - mickey mouse is public domain now, fukkery inbound
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Already got a video game too lol
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Mickey Mouse Game Changes Name After Antisemitic Accusations
Infestation 88 will now be called Infestation: Origins
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Mickey Mouse Game Changes Name After Antisemitic Accusations
Infestation 88 will now be called Infestation: Origins
ByKenneth Shepard
Published19 minutes ago
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Image: Nightmare Forge Games
If you haven’t heard, the Steamboat Willie version of Mickey Mouse is officially in the public domain, and Nightmare Forge Games wasted no time announcing a horror game starring that version of Disney’s mascot called Infestation 88. However, upon announcement, the team was met with immediate pushback regarding the game’s title and premise, with folks specifically accusing it of being an antisemitic dog whistle.
For those that don’t know, “88” is code for “HH,” or “Heil Hitler” within the Nazi movement as H is the eighth letter in the alphabet. The game focuses on killing a monster version of Mickey and dealing with a rat infestation by using gas, and the Nazi movement has used rats as a stand-in for Jewish people in its propaganda. All of this threw up too many red flags, and Infestation 88 was immediately met with suspicion that what looked like a horror game capitalizing on Mickey’s public domain status was actually hiding something much more insidious.
In response to the criticism, Nightmare Forge Games has announced it’s changing the name to Infestation: Origins, claiming ignorance of the historical context of its name and imagery.
Prior to this announcement, the studio explained to Kotaku that 88 was initially meant to represent the game’s 1988 setting and create a symmetrical design in the logo. The studio’s statement claimed “no additional connotations are intended,” but that it was open to changing the name rather than just tweaking the logo, and it looks like that’s the direction it decided to go. It’s a very serious matter, and it’s up to each person individually to decide whether they’re satisfied with these statements, but the entire project and controversy also draw attention to a common thread among games using classic characters who enter the public domain: the opportunistic use of those characters as a way to attract attention for a shallow, schlocky premise.
Steamboat Willie Mickey hit the public domain this year and Winnie-the-Pooh entered it the year before, and it seems all anyone’s willing to put money into when these things happen is some jarring, culture-shock version of these typically wholesome characters in horror stories. If that’s as far as our imagination goes with these kinds of projects, what’s the good in giving these characters to the public in the first place?
Mickey Mouse is now public domain — and there's already an AI tool for exploiting Disney's mascot
Steamboat Willie rides again. And again. And again.
Mickey Mouse is now public domain — and there's already an AI tool for exploiting Disney's mascot
By Ryan Morrison
published about 10 hours ago
Steamboat Willie rides again. And again. And again.
(Image credit: Public Domain)
Steamboat Willie was a 1928 short film featuring an early version of both Mickey and Minnie Mouse. Nearly a century after its release it is now in the public domain, meaning its characters and scenes can be reused, recreated and sold by anyone, not just Disney.
To celebrate this highly anticipated moment a group of developers trained a version of the Stable Diffusion artificial intelligence model exclusively on public domain Mickey Mouse.
Named Mickey-1928, the project was trained on the 96 still frames in the public domain and will be expanded as more Mickey Mouse imagery comes out of copyright in the coming years. It can create images of Mickey, Minnie and Pete (the villain) from a text prompt.
How does it work?
These are images generated using the Mickey-1928 AI model (Image credit: Public Domain)
The developer, Pierre-Carl Langlais, looked at the public domain cartoons and took 40 stills from Gallopin’ Gaucho (which is in color), 22 stills from Plane Crazy and 34 stills from Steamboat Willie and fed them into an AI model.
Once the model had digested and learned from those stills it could be put to use turning out new versions and adaptations based on the source material. For example, you could place Mickey on the moon, have him at a drive-thru or show him dancing with Minnie.
There are limitations around quality and image size, and you need to verify that every image is actually of the 1928 version of Mickey, as future versions are still under copyright protection but overall its a fun and distracting way to play with the newly-free Mickey Mouse.
What can it be used for?
These are images generated using the Mickey-1928 AI model (Image credit: Public Domain)
According to the Stanford Copyright and Fair Use Center , "anyone can use a public domain work without obtaining permission, but no one can ever own it". You can own the adaptation and even sell it on to others. There have already been horror shorts and video games made using early Mickey.
Mickey-1928 isn’t advanced enough to generate a series of images you could animate, it's more of a blunt instrument for generating standalone still imagesbased on the original cartoons.
It is also relatively low resolution, so not enough to print out as a poster or include on a t-shirt to sell on Etsy. However, as Mickey is now out of copyright you could use another AI image generator or even video generator to create a more advanced version of original Mickey.
Just make sure it is the 1928 version and not a later, still in copyright (mo)use.
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Devilinurear
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Only steam boat willie mickey mouse is public domain
Made a billie beat the trap, now he's back in the streets. The OG inked up mouse, I dont run from p*ssy, fukk Jerry. 
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Mickey mouse crack house, really a thing in tiktokI came in expecting Mickey mouse trap house
