Of Mice and Men: Disney Prevents Deadmau5 From Trademarking Two Peculiar Ears

From the “What in the world took so long” department, today brings us some legal ruminations via one successful trance music prodigy named Deadmau5. To his parents, the rodent-monikered dance hall wunderkind is Joel Zimmerman of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. To the rest of us, he wears a mouse head and two digitally enhanced ears.

For more than a decade, this has been Zimmerman’s shtick — he shows up in concert, never to be seen sans mouse head, and plays his curly tail off.