A new year brings lots of new things — including a new batch of entries into the public domain. 2025’s list includes ...

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

like Popeye’s spinach, be the subject of legal disputes. And in much of the world, Tintin won’t become public property until 70 years after the 1983 death of his creator. The books becoming ...

In the U.S., the length of copyright protection for works published before 1978 is 95 years. That means works from 1929 and ...

"Definitely the Popeye from 1929 and everything that he ... the public domain next year are two of the most acclaimed books about World War I: Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, and the ...

This year, thousands of copyrighted works created in 1929, including the earliest versions of Popeye and the Belgian comic book character Tintin, are now free to reuse and repurpose in the US.