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 ...

Works by Marcel Duchamp, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, and numerous other artists are entering the public domain this year as a major trove of copyrights expired in the US on January 1.

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Every year, January 1 marks a new crop of artists and artworks entering the public domain, a holiday affectionately known to some as Public Domain Day. This year, works by Henri Matisse ...

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 ...

There are a ton of new characters, books, films, and songs joining Mickey Mouse and Winnie The Pooh in the public domain grab-bag this year. Copyrights for creative works typically last 95 years, ...

Tintin, the seminal hero of the pulp genre of boy adventurers, enters the United States public ... domain, enabling gleefully emotionally transgressive and carefully not-legally transgressive ...

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

A series of classic songs and musical arrangements have entered the Public Domain this year; here are just a few of them.

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, ...

This year's introductions cover books, plays, movies, art, and musical compositions ... This law prevented new works from entering the public domain for two decades. As it does every year, the ...