It’s become an annual ritual: Every Jan. 1, more classic works of art or characters enter the public domain, and exploitation filmmakers with a tiny budget and a big taste for grisliness are ...

Popeye the Sailor is strong to the finish ’cause he eats his spinach and now he’s entered the public domain alongside thousands of other copyrighted works. This means the character is free to copy, ...

The title track from the hit play and movie entered the public domain Wednesday alongside a bevy of other songs, characters and literature first published in the mid-1920s. This year, Virginia ...

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 ...

In 1787, the founding fathers agreed that copyrights should only last for a limited amount of time in order to “promote the progress of science and useful arts.” Over two centuries later, that ...

It's January, and for people in the US, that means the same thing it's meant every January since 2019: a new batch of previously copyrighted works have entered the public domain. People can ...

Popular Standards From 1929 Have Entered The Public Domain News January 2, 2025 9:07 AM By Tom Breihan News January 2, 2025 9:07 AM By Tom Breihan ...

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

What’s behind this giddy mood? News that the compositions referenced in that intro are among those entering the public domain in 2025, as outlined by the team at the Duke Center for the Study of the ...