Public domain, where art lives after copyright The first of January ushers in a new year, a new month and new entries to the list of works in the public domain. While 2024 saw many popular ...

List of popular intellectual property entering the public domain in 2025 Works from 1929 and sound recordings from 1924 are now open to all in the U.S. This means all books, films, songs and art ...

Cecil Hepworth (entering public domain in countries with copyright of “life plus 70 years”) J. R. R. Tolkien (entering public domain in countries with copyright of “life plus 50 years”) ...

Art World From Escher to Mickey Mouse, Here Are the Artistic Gems Entering the Public Domain in 2024 In some countries, the works of Picabia and Picasso have joined the public domain.

The Marx Brothers’ first movie, the early iterations of the comic strip character Popeye, and Ernest Hemingway’s “A Farewell To Arms” are all entering the public domain on Jan. 1, 2025.

Since 2011, the online journal and not-for-profit project Public Domain Review has been dedicated to exploring, researching, and cataloguing copyright-free historical material from across art ...

The "Steamboat Willie" version of Disney icon Mickey Mouse just entered the public domain, and there's already an explosion of related AI-generated art. We talked to some of the creators behind it.

Jan. 1, 2024 is Public Domain Day in the United States — the day a bunch of artwork from the past evolves into its final form: public property. Art that's out of copyright exists for all of us ...

This year’s crop of newly public artistic creations lacks the landmark vibes of last year’s entrance of into the public domain of Mickey Mouse. But they include a deep well of canonical works ...

That’s public domain, baby. Every January 1, a bunch of old works of literature, music and art enter the public domain, meaning that no one holds exclusive rights to the work anymore.