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It’s become an annual ritual: Every Jan. 1, more classic works of art or characters enter the public domain, and exploitation filmmakers with a tiny budget and a big taste for grisliness are ...

From Popeye to books by William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, works from 1929 and sound recordings from 1924 have entered the public domain. It’s a particularly good year for new public domain films.

With 2025 officially starting, a handful of iconic characters and works have entered the U.S. public domain. With the copyrights for these books expiring, the public can now use and adapt these ...

A new year means a new start, and for some pieces of media, it means entering the public domain. In 2024, one of the most famous additions to the public domain was the first iteration of Mickey ...

A new year brings lots of new things — including a new batch of entries into the public domain. 2025’s list includes everything from cartoon classic Popeye to works from Ernest Hemingway and Agatha ...

Themed after beloved comic strip characters, Toon Lagoon showcases a variety of comic heroes and villains ... Now, with Popeye officially entering the public domain on January 1, 2025, the ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. The Marvel Universe as we know it started in 1961 with the debut of the Fantastic Four, so it's only fitting that the first post-launch heroes for ...

Popeye the Sailor is strong to the finish ’cause he eats his spinach and now he’s entered the public domain alongside thousands of other copyrighted works. This means the character is free to copy, ...

The title track from the hit play and movie entered the public domain Wednesday alongside a bevy of other songs, characters and literature first published in the mid-1920s. This year, Virginia ...

The Internet Archive is hosting several of the newly sprung works, free for you to remix, reuse, misuse, and generally do whatever you would like with. Huzzah! Oh, and here’s why the public domain ...