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

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

Popeye joining Mickey Mouse in the public domain, along with the first appearance of Mickey's signature white gloves.

By law, all films, music, and books created in the United States are protected under copyright. But copyrights eventually ...

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

Characters such as 'Popeye,' 'Buck Rogers,' and 'Tintin' are among the list of works falling into the public domain as of 2025. This as the copyright expires on works produced in 1929.

The properties entering the public domain in 2025 were first released in 1929—or, in the case of sound recordings, 1924. Here’s an incomplete list: The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (Book) ...

In the U.S., the length of copyright protection for works published before 1978 is 95 years. That means works from 1929 and sound recordings from 1924 are open to all in the U.S. from January 1, 2025.

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 ...