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 famous additions to the public domain was the first iteration of Mickey ...

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, ...

Meghan Markle has returned to Instagram, and according to a prominent royal commentator, her new social media account needs to be lucrative if she wants to use it to revive her public image.

Sharing heartfelt messages, wishes, and images has become a meaningful tradition, bridging distances and strengthening bonds across miles and time zones. Visuals have a unique ability to convey ...

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.

With the beginning of 2025, paintings by the likes of Henri Matisse, Frida Kahlo, and André Derain are shedding their copyright protections and entering the public domain in the United States ...

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 ...

However, the public domain can also open old art to newer audiences. As noted by the Library of Congress, "It's a Wonderful Life" only became a Christmas classic after Republic Pictures let its ...

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 ...

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 ...

The two classic comic characters who first appeared in 1929 are among the intellectual properties becoming public domain in the United States on Jan. 1. That means they can be used and repurposed ...

Statue of Virginia Woolf in Richmond, London, by Laury Dizengremel (photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) Virginia Woolf reigns supreme for the third Public Domain Day in a row — this time with ...