Many small publishing companies get their start by taking public domain e-books and selling them on Apple, Amazon and Kobo. Many of these titles all have to same cover art and do not stand out.

Public Domain Review has a “ Class of 2016 ” featuring 11 cultural figures who died in 1945 or 65 whose work is going out of copyright outside of the United States, including T. S. Eliot, Le ...

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 previously copyrighted works have entered the public domain.

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”) ...

"Any time you put images out in the public domain, you lose control over what happens to those images," said Jessa Lingel, an assistant professor of communication at the University of Pennsylvania ...

January 1 marked not only the start of 2020, but also Public Domain Day, when the copyright on a trove of long-protected works of art created in 1924 finally expired. Now, a cache of 95-year-old ...

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.