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 ...

Need inspiration? A new database from The Public Domain Review is a veritable trove of creativity across centuries.

With the beginning of 2025, paintings by the likes of Henri Matisse, Frida Kahlo and André Derain are entering the public ...

"Tintin enters the U.S. public domain in 2025 but is still copyrighted in the E.U. until 2054, because the author died in ...

A satirical look at how this year's new public domain entries could be turned into horror, from Mickey Mouse and Popeye to ...

By law, all films, music, and books created in the United States are protected under copyright. But copyrights eventually ...

Part of the point of the public domain is to let new artists build new value from old art, Jenkins noted. Look no further than the nearly $600 million in box office value generated from a fairly ...

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 ...

Professor Jennifer Jenkins, Director of Duke University’s Center for the Public Domain, joins WGN Radio’s Dave Plier to talk ...

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