It. Public Domain Day is coming up on January 1. Hear about it at urban legends and stranger truths every year on January 1, a batch of copyrighted works of intellectual property enter into the public domain. On Monday, the first versions of Mickey and Minnie Mouse that were featured in the 1928 short steamboat Willie will become available for public use. The a steamboat version of the iconic cartoon and the couple, in a nonspeaking, more ratlike presence, appear