Yesterday was Public Domain Day and Duke University’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain has the scoop on what work ...

The Sound and the Fury,' 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'The Maltese Falcon' lose their copyright protection on Jan. 1, and it's ...

Works from 1929 and sound recordings from 1924 are now open to all in the U.S. This means all books, films, songs and art published throughout the Roaring 20s are without copyright protection, making ...

With the beginning of 2025, paintings by the likes of Henri Matisse, Frida Kahlo and André Derain are entering the public ...

In 2024, one of the most famous additions to the public domain was the first iteration of Mickey Mouse, which lost copyright protection ... works that will be free to use this year include ...

The title track from the hit play and movie entered the public domain ... free for use in their original versions. Olive Oyl, Popeye's spunky side-kick and sweetheart is already unbound from ...

The first of January ushers in a new year, a new month and new entries to the list of works in the public domain. While 2024 saw many popular intellectual properties lose copyright protection ...

That depiction of Mickey is now copyright-free; the ur-Mickey depicted in the Walt Disney short "Steamboat Willie" entered the public domain on Jan. 1, 2024, but later depictions such as the white ...

This year, Popeye the Sailor joins Mickey as a new entrant to the public domain — that is ... artistically significant works to become copyright-free. That means they become available for ...

But they include a deep well of canonical works whose 95-year copyright maximums will expire. And the Disney icon’s public domain presence ... earliest version is free for reuse.

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

But they include a deep well of canonical works whose 95-year copyright maximums will expire. And the Disney icon’s public domain presence ... earliest version is free for reuse.