Brilliant movies from 1930, like Greta Garbo's Anna Christie and Marlene Dietrich's The Blue Angel, are scheduled to enter ...

Ever since 2019 — the end of a 20-year IP drought brought on by congressional copyright extensions — every annual crop has been a bounty for advocates of more work belonging to the public.

I may have vaguely heard of it over the last several years, but when “Public Domain Day” videos started popping up in my YouTube feed this year, and I saw that the original character of Nancy Drew and ...

What if Anthony Rogers never left Earth? Philip Francis Nowlan's 1928 novella Armageddon 2419 A.D. now in the public domain, introduced a WWI veteran who awakens five centuries later to find America ...

Betty Boop and "Blondie" are joining Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh in the public domain. That means creators can use and ...

US copyright law is kinda complicated, but as a rule, films generally remain under copyright for a period of 95 years, ...

The beginning of 2026 brought new copyrighted items entering the public domain, including multiple iconic Disney cartoons and ...

It’s a new year, and you know what that means: a whole new collection of characters and stories are entering the public ...

In a kind of copyright twofer, a film called “Cimarron,” and the book it was based on, are now in the public domain. The film ...

Copyright expired for the art, literature, and music of 1930, including Piet Mondrian and Paul Klee masterpieces, on Public ...

You may have heard familiar names like Betty Boop and Nancy Drew have entered what's called the public domain. The story of ...