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.

Every Jan. 1, more classic works of art or characters enter the public domain, and exploitation filmmakers with a tiny budget ...

Since 2011, the online journal and not-for-profit project Public Domain Review has been dedicated to exploring, researching, and cataloguing copyright-free historical material from across art ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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, ...