&gt; Never mind the fact that trademark is a better fit for how they use it...<p>I&#x27;m not sure about this. I think trademark would prevent you from publishing a work and calling it &quot;Mickey Mouse&quot; or something similar, but it wouldn&#x27;t stop you from producing work which incorporated Mickey Mouse somehow, and calling it something else e.g. &quot;I Hate Corporate Mice&quot; or something.