A new year means a new start, and for some pieces of media, it means entering the public domain. In 2024, one of the most ...

January 1 introduced the 1929 class of works which signified richness in the era’s literature and cinematic technology.

More work from major writers, directors and musicians — along with legendary characters — entered the public domain to start ...

In 2025, the works unbound from copyright cap off the 1920s with literature, characters and more from 1929 entering the ...

The first of January ushers in a new year, a new month and new entries to the list of works in the public domain. While 2024 saw many popular intellectual properties lose copyright protection ...

All of the films, books, art, and sound recordings released in the entire decade of the 1920s are now officially part of the ...

The title track from the hit play and movie entered the public domain Wednesday alongside a bevy of other songs, characters and literature first published in the mid-1920s. This year, Virginia ...

It’s become an annual ritual: Every Jan. 1, more classic works of art or characters enter the public domain, and exploitation filmmakers with a tiny budget and a big taste for grisliness are ...

The two classic comic characters who first appeared in 1929 are among the intellectual properties becoming public domain in the United ... to win the Oscar for best picture — known as ...

With a new year comes a new crop of books, films, music, and other works falling into the public domain. For 2025, that includes works that were originally published in 1929. According to the Duke ...

While not starring Mickey Mouse, there’s another Disney animated short that will soon enter the Public Domain in 2025 as well: The Skeleton Dance. This first installment in the Silly Symphony ...