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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Mickey is most likely going to be protected by trademark law, rather than copyright. The original Tarzan books are in public domain, but people can't write more Tarzan novels because Tarzan is protected by trademark.
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Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc. is also fortunate that the most iconic elements of the Tarzan franchise are from the 1930s movies. I think noncanonical Tarzan novels based on what is in the public domain would be possible. It would have to go through the litigation that Sherlock Holmes stuff had to go through since the Conan Doyle estate apparently made it very difficult for people to try to use what was already in the public domain but ultimately common sense win out & I occasionally see new Sherlock stuff on Kickstarter.