A new year means a new start, and for some pieces of media, it means entering the public domain. In 2024, one of the most ...

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

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

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

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

Popeye the Sailor, created by Elzie Crisler Segar, is now public domain. Popeye is among a slew of 1929 characters and works, ...

More work from major writers, directors and musicians — along with legendary characters — entered the public domain to start ...

In 2024, one of the most famous additions to the public domain was the first iteration ... s “A Farewell to Arms” and the original Popeye, but these are just the beginning.

The first iteration of Popeye and Alfred Hitchcock’s first sound film are among the copyrighted works that will enter the public domain in 2025.

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