It’s a new year, and that means more works are headed to the public domain. This year, thousands of copyrighted works created ...

There’s also some complexity when it comes to music. Sound recordings from 1924 are now in the public domain, while 1929 ...

The public domain works by keeping works under copyright protection for a set period of time. Once that time expires, anyone is free to use and build upon it in the public domain. These rules were ...

All of the films, books, art, and sound recordings released in the entire decade of the 1920s are now officially part of the ...

January 1, 2025 will see a slew of classic Disney properties, including those featuring Mickey Mouse, enter the Public Domain. These works from 1929 can now be shared, copied, and built upon by other ...

On January 1st, 2025, Tintin and his loyal dog Snowy entered public domain in the United States, paving the way for new adventures. For French born-US based comic book creator Fabrice Sapolsky ...

As we welcome 2025, everyone can also welcome these iconic works as they entered the public domain in the U.S.

At the turn of the new year, several pieces of classic media entered the public domain, making them free to use by anyone.

With a new year comes a new crop of books ... Public Domain, that list includes a number of iconic characters. The very first appearance of Popeye the Sailor, as seen in Thimble Theatre comic ...

The two classic comic characters who first appeared in 1929 are among the intellectual properties becoming public domain in the United ... death of his creator. The books becoming public this ...

The copyrights of thousands of 20th-century films, books, compositions and sound recordings expire on Jan. 1, making them ...