‘The mouse is out’: Mickey Mouse horror film trailer released as copyright ends

The official poster for Mickey's Mouse Trap. Picture: MM Trap LTD/PA Wire

The trailer for a horror film featuring a killer dressed as Mickey Mouse has been released after Disney’s earliest versions of the cartoon character entered the public domain in the US.

The copyright on Disney’s 1928 short Steamboat Willie expired in the US on New Year’s Day, 95 years after it was released.