In 2025, the works unbound from copyright cap off the 1920s with literature, characters and more from 1929 entering the ...

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

It's a new year, and that means a new crop of iconic characters—some more than others—entering the public domain. According ...

Public Domain Day, meaning artworks from 1929 (or 1924 in the case of sound recordings) are now free for all creators to use ...

Popeye can punch without permission and Tintin can roam freely starting in 2025. The two classic comic characters who first ...

From "A Farewell to Arms" to the cartoon character Popeye the Sailor, thousands of artistic works will enter the public ...

There are a ton of new characters, books, films, and songs joining Mickey Mouse and Winnie The Pooh in the public domain grab-bag this year. Copyrights for creative works typically last 95 years, ...

A new year brings lots of new things — including a new batch of entries into the public domain. 2025’s list includes ...

Filmmakers working in the ever-expanding genre of public domain horror will soon have even more Mickey Mouse to play with.

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

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