Each year on January 1, 95-year-old copyrights expire and a multitude of works enter the public domain, allowing them to be freely adapted and interpreted by anyone in the United States. Following ...

A series of classic songs and musical arrangements have entered the Public Domain this year; here are just a few of them.

From Buñuel's masterpiece Un Chien Andalou to DeMille's Dynamite, these movies will enter the public domain in 2025.

In 2025, a mountain of work dated to between 1924 to 1929 will enter the US public domain, including some well-known and beloved songs that are still regularly performed today.

As we welcome 2025, everyone can also welcome these iconic works as they entered the public domain in the U.S.

It’s January, which means another batch of copyrighted work is now public domain More Mickey Mouse versions, early talkies, and classic novels all go public.

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

With the beginning of 2025, paintings by the likes of Henri Matisse, Frida Kahlo and André Derain are entering the public domain.

Several iconic characters from 1929 are headed to the public domain this year, including the earliest versions of Popeye and Tintin.

Here are the books and characters newly joining the list of works in the public domain in 2025.

2025 features Popeye joining Mickey Mouse in the public domain, along with the first appearance of Mickey's signature white gloves.