Every Jan. 1, more classic works of art or characters enter the public domain, and exploitation filmmakers with a tiny budget ...

A new year means a new start and for some pieces of media, it also means entering the public domain. In 2024, one of the most ...

In 2025, the works unbound from copyright cap off the 1920s with literature, characters and more from 1929 entering the ...

It's January, and for people in the US, that means the same thing it's meant every January since 2019: a new batch of ...

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

There are a ton of new characters, books, films, and songs joining Mickey Mouse and Winnie The Pooh in the public domain grab ...

Here are the new books and characters joining the list of works in the public domain in 2025. Ten people were killed and ...

Public Domain Day, meaning artworks from 1929 (or 1924 in the case of sound recordings) are now free for all creators to use ...

Filmmakers working in the ever-expanding genre of public domain horror will soon have even more Mickey Mouse to play with.

The Sound and the Fury,' 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'The Maltese Falcon' lose their copyright protection on Jan. 1, and it's ...

A new year brings lots of new things — including a new batch of entries into the public domain. 2025’s list includes ...

The Copyright Act of 1790, the first U.S. law of its kind, allowed authors to protect their creative works for 14 years; if ...