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A lot of Disney throwing its weight around as people accidentally overstep the bounds of copyright, trademark and other legal stuff like that.
Not saying Disney would be in the right. But Disney is bonkers for this kind of stuff, and they've got ridiculous amounts of money to spend in court.
Well the copyright expired, that's why it's now public domain. But the trademark is still there.
That's why they worked him into one of their animated intro logos a few years ago.
I would say an animated intro isn't a trademark, and even then making a movie with that material isn't copying someone's trademark for your trademark. But this could get interesting.
I mean they just need to slap a (TM) on every official appearence of Mickey. Hell, they can easily say an abstract representstion of Mickey's ears represent Disney and they wouldn't even be wrong.
This is pushing my knowledge but trademark infringement would be if you use their logo as your logo. You can't mislead people into thinking your product comes from them. That doesn't mean you can't ever have public domain things in your product.