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 ...

1: a new batch of copyrighted works entering the public domain. In 2025, the rights to characters, books, plays, movies, drawings, paintings, and photography from 1929, as well as sound recordings ...

List of popular intellectual property entering the public domain in 2025 Works from 1929 and sound recordings from 1924 are now open to all in the U.S. This means all books, films, songs and art ...

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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 ...

Music from 1924 will also enter the public domain this year, with tunes like "Happy Days Are Here Again" by Jack Yellen and Milton Ager and "What is this Thing Called Love?" by Cole Porter ...

Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle, the directors at the Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain, clarified that this doesn’t mean users have total free reign when it comes to these pieces of ...

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 the earliest versions of Popeye and the Belgian ...

According to Jenniffer Jenkins, the director of Duke’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain, these include “masterpieces from Faulkner and Hemingway, the first sound films from Alfred Hitchcock, ...

Popeye the Sailor is strong to the finish ’cause he eats his spinach and now he’s entered the public domain alongside thousands of other copyrighted works. This means the character is free to copy, ...