The properties entering the public domain in 2025 were first released in 1929—or, in the case of sound recordings, 1924. Here’s an incomplete list: The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (Book) ...

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 ...

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.

List of popular intellectual property entering the public domain in 2025 Works from 1929 and sound recordings from 1924 are now open to all in the U.S. This means all books, films, songs and art ...

For comic book fans interested in the behind-the-scenes drama of the comics industry, Chip Zdarsky's Image series Public Domain is the book for you.

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 ...

So every year New Year’s Day is also Public Domain Day, when films, books, songs, and other various works of art enter the public ... most beloved and well-known comic-book and comic-strip ...

The day marks the milestone that all of the books, films, songs, and art that was published in the 1920s is now public domain.

The two classic comic characters who first appeared in 1929 are among the intellectual properties becoming public domain in the United States on ... 70 years after the 1983 death of his creator. The ...

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.

Professor Jennifer Jenkins, Director of Duke University’s Center for the Public Domain, joins WGN Radio’s Dave Plier to talk ...