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

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

Get ready, nerds: a whole host of iconic works of art — from film, music, animation, books, and more—are coming into the ...

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

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

Both Popeye and Tintin will walk the path of Steamboat ... Music from 1924 will also enter the public domain this year, with tunes like "Happy Days Are Here Again" by Jack Yellen and Milton ...

The original versions of Popeye and Tintin have now entered the public domain, leaving potential adaptation possibilities ...

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.