The lawsuit seeks clarity around whether companies can exploit the earliest depiction of Mickey Mouse from a 1928 animated ...

While the Mickey Mouse from Steamboat Willie is in the public domain, a new lawsuit claims Disney is preventing the character ...

Celebrate the public domain with the University Libraries during the week of March 10! Works from Frida Kahlo, the Marx Brothers, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, and more all entered the public ...

Ty Roush is a breaking news reporter based in New York City. Copyrights on works from 1927, including Arthur Conan Doyle’s short-story collection The Case-Book of ...

There's no doubt that open-source software and that in the public domain are similar. But even experts differ about just how closely linked they are. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

You can add “medieval black comedy” to Netflix’s expanding list of programming they hope will make a splashy hit; The Decameron is set to be a rude, soapy, and satirical look at sex, class, and power ...

Garrett has been an avid gamer since the Game Boy Color was considered the hottest handheld on the market. He's watched video games evolve into one of the best storytelling mediums of the 21st century ...

That changed in 1891, when Congress passed the Forest Reserve Act, which authorized the president to place some unregulated ...

In recent years, every New Year’s Day has brought a bumper crop of literary and artistic works into the public domain — that is, out of copyright after decades of protection. This year, the harvest is ...

Warships have always captured the imagination, towering steel giants cruising across the oceans, carrying stories of power, ...

From the piston-driven legends of World War II to the stealth platforms of the 21st century, American fighter jets have ...

Verizon teams with Tampa Police to deploy 950 5G-enabled devices, boosting its push into the growing public safety market.