It’s a new year, and that means more works are headed to the public domain. This year, thousands of copyrighted works created in 1929, including the earliest versions of Popeye and the Belgian comic book character Tintin, are now free to reuse and repurpose in the US.

It's the start of a new year, which means a fresh crop of creative works have entered the public domain. Today, many materials that were copyrighted in 1929, along with sound recordings from 1924, become fair game to freely adapt,

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

Tintin, now in the Public Domain, gets a modern revival in The Big Lie, to be Kickstartered this year from Fabrice Sapolsky.

From "A Farewell to Arms" to the cartoon character Popeye the Sailor, thousands of artistic works will enter the public domain in the United States on Wednesday. Among the literary works entering the US public domain on January 1 are the novels "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner,

Popeye and Tintin, as well work from several literary classics, are now a part of the public domain. New Year’s Day isn’t just the start of the new year, but it’s also “Public Domain Day” in the world of copyright law.