A new year means a new start, and for some pieces of media, it means entering the public domain. In 2024, one of the most famous additions to the public domain was the first iteration of Mickey Mouse, ...

A series of classic songs and musical arrangements have entered the Public Domain this year; here are just a few of them.

Some works enter the public domain the moment they are created, such as the AI-generated images below. Others take their ...

With the beginning of 2025, paintings by the likes of Henri Matisse, Frida Kahlo, and André Derain are shedding their copyright protections and entering the public domain in the United States ...

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 ...

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 previously copyrighted works have entered the public domain. People can ...

Every year, the world celebrates the first of January as Public Domain Day, marking the release of copyrighted works into the public domain. In 2024, ...

The title track from the hit play and movie entered the public domain Wednesday alongside a bevy of other songs, characters and literature first published in the mid-1920s. This year, Virginia ...

Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. It’s a new year, and that means more works are headed to the public domain. This year, thousands of copyrighted works created in 1929, including ...

In 1787, the founding fathers agreed that copyrights should only last for a limited amount of time in order to “promote the progress of science and useful arts.” Over two centuries later, that ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Popeye and Tintin, as well work from several literary classics, are now a part of the public domain. New Year's Day isn't just the start of the new year, but it's also "Public ...

Jennifer Jenkins, the director of Duke Law School’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain, documents each year’s Public Domain Day highlights on the center’s website. “For copyrighted ...