In 2025, a mountain of work dated to between 1924 to 1929 will enter the US public domain, including some well-known and beloved songs that are still regularly performed today. Thousands of ...

Here’s how it works. In 2025, a mountain of work dated to between 1924 to 1929 will enter the US public domain, including some well-known and beloved songs that are still regularly performed today.

This year will see works from 1929 and sound recordings from 1924 entering the public domain. Some of the most iconic works that will be free to use this year include Ernest Hemingway’s “A ...

The title track from the hit play and movie entered the public domain Wednesday alongside a ... class from 1929 − the year available for free use in 2025 − each work was singular for its ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Popeye and Tintin, as well work from several literary classics, are now a part of the public domain. New Year's Day isn't just the start of the new year, but it's also "Public ...

are now free to reuse and repurpose in the US. Duke Law School’s Center for the Study of Public Domain has once again rounded up all the most iconic works that have been freed from the bounds of ...

Here are some of the most notable works that are newly free to use. When a work is in the public domain, it has no copyright protection, meaning anyone can use and build upon it at leisure.

The public domain works by keeping works under copyright protection for a set period of time. Once that time expires, anyone is free to use and build upon it in the public domain. These rules were ...

Filmmakers working in the ever-expanding genre of public domain horror will soon have even more Mickey Mouse to play with. With every new year comes new works that are set to go into the public ...

Jan. 1 is Public Domain Day, meaning artworks from 1929 (or 1924 in the case of sound recordings) are now free for all creators to use and abuse to their hearts' content. The works of art ...

Previously, she founded The Mary Sue. Tintin, the seminal hero of the pulp genre of boy adventurers, enters the United States public domain in 2025, though in a way that probably wouldn’t please ...

The spinach-fueled sailor is one of many characters and works that will lose their copyright status and enter the public domain on January ... giving the public free reign to distribute them ...