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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There are a ton of new characters, books, films, and songs joining Mickey Mouse and Winnie The Pooh in the public domain grab ...

Walt Disney directed the iconic Skeleton Dance short animated by Ub Iwerks, as well as when Mickey Mouse starred in his first ...

Get ready, nerds: a whole host of iconic works of art — from film, music, animation, books, and more—are coming into the ...

Popeye, Tintin, and films from Alfred Hitchcock and the Marx Brothers entered the public domain in the U.S. this week.

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

Both Popeye and Tintin will walk the path of Steamboat ... Music from 1924 will also enter the public domain this year, with tunes like "Happy Days Are Here Again" by Jack Yellen and Milton ...

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

Filmmakers working in the ever-expanding genre of public domain horror will soon have even more Mickey Mouse to play with.

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.