As of the start of 2022, works form 1926 have entered the public domain. In cases not involving works made for hire, the copyright expires 70 years after the death of the author.

Jan. 1 to most of us is simply New Year's Day. But in the legal world, it's also "public domain day." It's the day the copyrights to all sorts of things come to an end and you'll never believe ...

Are these heads creepy? Yes. Are they copyright violations? As of 2024, probably not. Credit: Daniel Knighton via Getty Images Jan. 1, 2024 is Public Domain Day in the United States — the day a ...

The model, released just after the turn of the year, can be used to create images of Mickey, Minnie, and Peg Leg Pete based on images taken from a trio of now-public domain 1928 Disney shorts.

More than 300 years of illustrations from the archives of the British Library have been uploaded to Flickr Commons, and now the organisation wants help sifting through them ...