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

Classic comic characters including Popeye and Tintin will soon enter the public domain, opening them up to new horror ...

The properties entering the public domain in 2025 were first released in 1929—or, in the case of sound recordings, 1924. Here ...

The sailor and boy detective can be reproduced without permission from 2025, but some details, like Tintin’s red hair, are ...

Popeye can punch without permission and Tintin can roam freely starting in 2025. Here’s a closer look at this year’s group.

The Marx Brothers’ first movie, the early iterations of the comic strip character Popeye, and Ernest Hemingway’s “A Farewell To Arms” are all entering the public domain on Jan. 1 ...

The two classic comic characters who first appeared in 1929 are among the intellectual properties becoming public domain in the United States on Jan. 1. That means they can be used and repurposed ...

The two classic comic characters who first appeared in 1929 are among the intellectual properties becoming public domain in the United States on Jan. 1. That means they can be used and repurposed ...

(and sound recordings from 1924) will enter into the public domain in the United States, and that includes a good portion of Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, a work of explicit and broad anti-Soviet ...

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

Pop open a can of spinach and grab a furry friend because Popeye and Tintin are among the classic comic characters becoming ...