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

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

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

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

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

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.

At the turn of the new year, several pieces of classic media entered the public domain, making them free to use by anyone.

This year's crop includes internationally recognized figures such as the comic character Tintin, who made his debut in a Belgian newspaper in 1929, and Popeye the Sailor, created by cartoonist ...