By law, all films, music, and books created in the United States are protected under copyright. But copyrights eventually ...

With the beginning of 2025, paintings by the likes of Henri Matisse, Frida Kahlo and André Derain are entering the public ...

As we welcome 2025, everyone can also welcome these iconic works as they entered the public domain in the U.S.

A satirical look at how this year's new public domain entries could be turned into horror, from Mickey Mouse and Popeye to ...

In the U.S., the length of copyright protection for works published before 1978 is 95 years. That means works from 1929 and ...

It’s a new year, and that means more works are headed to the public domain. This year, thousands of copyrighted works created ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly ... Facing their own looming public-domain deadlines, those companies seem poised to adopt a version of the Doyle estate’s ...

At the turn of the new year, several pieces of classic media entered the public domain, making them free to use by anyone.

"Tintin enters the U.S. public domain in 2025 but is still copyrighted in the E.U. until 2054, because the author died in ...

Popeye joining Mickey Mouse in the public domain, along with the first appearance of Mickey's signature white gloves.

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.

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) ...