Each year on January 1, 95-year-old copyrights expire and a multitude of works enter the public domain, allowing them to be freely adapted and interpreted by anyone in the United States.

In 2025, a mountain of work dated to between 1924 to 1929 will enter the US public domain, including some well-known and beloved songs that are still regularly performed today. Thousands of ...

Popular Standards From 1929 Have Entered The Public Domain News January 2, 2025 9:07 AM By Tom Breihan News January 2, 2025 9:07 AM By Tom Breihan ...

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 ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Popeye and Tintin, as well work from several literary classics, are now a part of the public domain. New Year's Day isn't just the start of the new year, but it's also "Public ...

Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. It’s a new year, and that means more works are headed to the public domain. This year, thousands of copyrighted works created in 1929, including ...

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.

Jan. 1 is Public Domain Day, meaning artworks from 1929 (or 1924 in the case of sound recordings) are now free for all creators to use and abuse to their hearts' content. The works of art ...

Previously, she founded The Mary Sue. Tintin, the seminal hero of the pulp genre of boy adventurers, enters the United States public domain in 2025, though in a way that probably wouldn’t please ...