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.

Popeye the Sailor, created by Elzie Crisler Segar, is now public domain. Popeye is among a slew of 1929 characters and works, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Where Popeye is concerned, it’s worth immediately drilling down on what this all means for creators who want to tell their own stories about the spinach-scarfing sailor. Long story short ...

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 ...

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 ...

(It also means the entire decade of the 1920s is officially up for grabs.) Tintin and Popeye are both now available, neither of whom seem like big jumps. (Tintin has traveled both to space and the ...

The Marx Brothers’ first movie, the early iterations of the comic strip character Popeye, and Ernest Hemingway ... is to let new artists build new value from old art, Jenkins noted.

Popeye (you know, the sailor man?) also appeared in E.C. Segar’s Thimble Theater for the first time in 1929. Though, at that point, Thimble Theater had already been running in the New York ...

A SCREENWRITER from Poole is starring as Popeye in a new horror film version that will be out in January 2025. Steven Murphy is appearing as Popeye in the film produced by Rene August and ...