It's a new year, and that means a new crop of iconic characters—some more than others—entering the public domain. According ...

Popeye is nearly 100 years old, and his debut appearance is still just as funny today as it was in the 1920s, and shows why ...

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

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

Other notable Disney works in the public domain in 2025 are Disney’s first “Silly Symphony” short, titled “The Skeleton Dance,” directed by Walt Disney and animated by Ub Iwerks. 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.

Or maybe some not-so-recent funnies. Liô, where we grabbed our feature image from, is in reruns this week but the Friday ...

A similar situation could play out with Popeye, who first appeared on Jan. 17, 1929, in the comic strip Thimble Theatre. That version alone — and not the Popeye who began appearing in animated ...

Popeye can punch without permission and Tintin can roam freely starting in 2025. The two classic comic characters who first appeared in 1929 are among the intellectual properties becoming public ...

January 17, is remembered in history as the day Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny set foot in Moscow after five months ...

We've been hearing about this one for a while, and ITN Studios has now released the first trailer for its "raunchy and gory" Popeye horror ...

Popeye the sailor could soon be flexing his spinach-fuelled muscles in new adventures when the copyright on the iconic cartoon character expires on New Year’s Day. He is set to be joined by ace ...