Captain America/Steve Rogers is one of the most influential and iconic characters in superhero history. He is one of the most ...

Superman. Captain America. The Fantastic Four. All of these characters, and many, many more, are getting new movies this year ...

Some works enter the public domain the moment they are created, such as the AI-generated images below. Others take their ...

Every year, the world celebrates the first of January as Public Domain Day, marking the release of copyrighted works into the public domain. In 2024, ...

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

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

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(Olive Oyl, incidentally, preceded Popeye into the public domain by 10 years ... confused locals to their Southern-gothic doom. The comic book character Tintin. Tintin’s job as a reporter ...

Duke Law School’s Center for the Study of Public Domain has a helpful roundup, but highlights include the original character of Tintin by Hergé as he appeared in the Le Petit Vingtième magazine comic ...

It’s a particularly good year for new public domain films. The character of Popeye first appeared in a 1929 comic called “Gobs of Work” that was part of the Thimble Theatre strip. Though the character ...

The Adventures of Tintin series 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 EU until 2054.