Popular Standards From 1929 Have Entered Public Domain

These works enter the public domain in 2025
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 — notably the first iteration of Mickey Mouse — 2025 is not without its fair share of noteworthy additions.
More Mickey Mouse, Popeye and Faulkner works enter the public domain
Mickey Mouse animations, the original Popeye character and hundreds of other works entered the public domain on January 1, 2025.
Popular Standards From 1929 Have Entered The Public Domain
Last year, the original version of Mickey Mouse went into the public domain. That doesn’t mean that anyone can use Mickey Mouse’s image for whatever they want, but it does mean that the version of Mickey who first appeared in Walt Disney’s original Steamboat Willie cartoon is now fair game.
Popeye Enters the Public Domain (and More Mickey Mouse, Too)
Popeye joining Mickey Mouse in the public domain, along with the first appearance of Mickey's signature white gloves.
Popeye, Disney’s Skeleton Dance, and More Hit Public Domain in 2025
Filmmakers working in the ever-expanding genre of public domain horror will soon have even more Mickey Mouse to play with.
Disney's Skeleton Dance & Mickey Shorts Are Now Public Domain
You can only use the public domain versions of characters. Disney still owns the trademarks on the images and has already said it will enforce them. One can not
It’s January, which means another batch of copyrighted work is now public domain
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 ...
Here are some new public domain titles that could become horror movies in 2025
There are a ton of new characters, books, films, and songs joining Mickey Mouse and Winnie The Pooh in the public domain grab ...
Early Hitchcock and Disney films, song 'Singin' in the Rain,' “A Farewell to Arms”, and more enter public domain in 2025
All of the films, books, art, and sound recordings released in the entire decade of the 1920s are now officially part of the ...
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Iconic Works by Frida Kahlo, Henri Matisse, and More Join the Public Domain in 2025
With the beginning of 2025, paintings by the likes of Henri Matisse, Frida Kahlo and André Derain are entering the public ...
2025 Public Domain Day: Popeye, Tintin, more legendary artwork up for grabs
In 2025, the works unbound from copyright cap off the 1920s with literature, characters and more from 1929 entering the ...