How’s that for a first publication? Can’t wait to see the St-Christopher Copyright Extension Act extend retroactively to the 14th century!

What appears to be a 700-year-old picture of Mickey Mouse has been discovered on a church fresco in Austria.
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« It is most likely to be a drawing of a beaver or a weasel. »

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However, Carinthia’s tourism office is already thinking of ways to cash in on the sketch.

Siggi Neuschitzer, manager of the Malta Tourism Association, said: « The similarity of the painting to Mickey Mouse is so astounding that the Disney concern could even lose its world-wide copyright licence.

« Our Mickey Mouse is 700 years older than Disney’s and we will get it legally examined. »

Dream on!

[via Ananova’s quirkies]