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Mickey Mouse Takes Deadmau5 to Court

Mickey Is Mad

Disney is suing the electronic DJ Deadmau5 over his logo—but the Magic Kingdom might end up being the Old Media loser in this showdown.

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In 1998, Joel Thomas Zimmerman was 16 years old, noodling around with vintage DOS music software like Impulse Tracker.

A world away, in Washington, D.C.,

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