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

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

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 ...

Alfred Hitchcock's first sound film, literary classics by Dashiell Hammett, Virginia Woolf, and William Faulkner, and additional Mickey Mouses are now fair use as of ...

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

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

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 original Popeye and Tintin characters will enter the public domain when their copyright expires next week, along with ...

Each year on Jan. 1, copyright protections expire on a new batch of media, like books, movies, characters and music.

Popeye and Tintin, as well work from several literary classics, are now a part of the public domain. New Year’s Day isn’t ...