It’s a new year, and that means more works are headed to the public domain. This year, thousands of copyrighted works created ...

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

Popeye can punch without permission and Tintin can roam freely starting in 2025. The two classic comic characters who first ...

Tintin, now in the Public Domain, gets a modern revival in The Big Lie, to be Kickstartered this year from Fabrice Sapolsky.

The copyrights of thousands of 20th-century films, books, compositions and sound recordings expire on Jan. 1, making them ...

Characters such as 'Popeye,' 'Buck Rogers,' and 'Tintin' are among the list of works falling into the public domain as of 2025. This as the copyright expires on works produced in 1929.

Popeye can punch without permission and Tintin can now roam freely. The two classic comic characters who first appeared in 1929 are among the intellectual properties that became public domain in ...

The original versions of Popeye and Tintin have now entered the public domain, leaving potential adaptation possibilities ...

Classic comic characters including Popeye and Tintin will soon enter the public domain, opening them up to new horror ...

(and sound recordings from 1924) will enter into the public domain in the United States, and that includes a good portion of Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, a work of explicit and broad anti-Soviet ...

Jan. 1 marks the dawn of a new era for Popeye and Tintin. It's the day the nonagenarian cartoon characters officially enter the U.S. public domain along with a treasure trove of other iconic works.