Other notable Disney works in the public domain in 2025 are Disney’s first “Silly Symphony” short, titled “The Skeleton Dance,” directed by Walt Disney and animated by Ub Iwerks.

But, in the U.S., commissioned works including books ... some 150 comic strips to newspapers worldwide.) Later this month, Popeye will receive its first horror-film public domain treatment with ...

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 ...

Every January 1 in the Books department, we like to make an extra toast for a concurrent holiday: Public Domain Day.

With a new year comes a new crop of books, films ... version of the sailor entering the public domain is the version that appeared in the "Thimble Theatre" comic strip, first appearing as a ...

On January 1st, 2025, Tintin and his loyal dog Snowy entered public domain in the United States, paving the way for new adventures. For French born-US based comic book creator Fabrice Sapolsky ...

The two classic comic characters who first appeared in 1929 are among the intellectual properties becoming public domain in the United ... death of his creator. The books becoming public this ...

With the copyrights for these books expiring ... has become one of the most popular European comics. While Tintin will enter the U.S. public domain in 2025, he will remain copyrighted in the ...

Adaptations of Holmes stories are exploding now that the detective is in the public domain. Critics believe it should have ...

It’s become an annual ritual: Every Jan. 1, more classic works of art or characters enter the public domain ... to their Southern-gothic doom. The comic book character Tintin.