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 intellectual properties lose copyright protection ...

What is entering the public domain in 2025? Although this is not a full list of works, here are some of the most notable examples, according to the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at ...

Public domain, where art lives after copyright For nearly four decades, United Airlines licensed George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" to be its musical identity. In 2020, however, Gershwin's jazzy ...

Other notable literary works now in public domain include A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf, A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemmingway, Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie and The Sound and ...

Mickey Mouse is finally in the public domain. Here’s what that means. The earliest ‘Steamboat Willie’ Mickey is now public — along with Minnie, Tigger and works by Keaton, Lawrence and Woolf ...

Steamboat Willie, lMickey Mouse, 1928). Many iconic copyrighted works (most notably, Mickey Mouse) that were first published prior to 1929 fell into the public domain in the United States starting ...

Here’s a list of popular characters that will hit the public domain within the next few years, and our eyes definitely went wide at the names available in the 2030s: Mickey Mouse (2024) Tigger ...

Movies entering the public domain include the first feature-length film The Jazz Singer, Wings, winner of the first Academy Award for outstanding picture, 7th Heaven and Metropolis.

For example, when Superman enters the public domain in 2033, new character variations must be based on how he appeared in DC Comics' "Action Comics #1" in 1938.