Disney has been bringing back Steamboat Willie in some contexts, and even bought the rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit a while ago. I absolutely wouldn't put it

Disney has been bringing back Steamboat Willie in some contexts, and even bought the rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit a while ago. I absolutely wouldn't put it past them to actively cultivate FUD by putting these designs in new productions so that they have a pretext for claiming that people are deriving from new works rather than old ones.