Might not be safe anyway. There’s plenty of works and characters in public domain (IIRC including Superman), but there’s usually some caveat that “the story cannot involve story lines that happened while the character was in private possession”. And possibly not named as original was named
Mickey when he finally enters the public domain next year
don’t jinx it.
disney’s still here.
they’ve been notorious for lobbying to extend copyright laws just so they can continue to grapple on the mickey mouse ip.
Yeah and if they keep it up, their copyright might live past even the US government haha
Might not be safe anyway. There’s plenty of works and characters in public domain (IIRC including Superman), but there’s usually some caveat that “the story cannot involve story lines that happened while the character was in private possession”. And possibly not named as original was named