LOS ANGELES (AP) — M-I-C-K-E-Y will soon belong to you and me. With several asterisks, qualification and caveats, Mickey Mouse in his earliest form will be the leader of the band of characters, films ...

In real estate, two houses of the same size and build quality can have drastically different values. If one is in a great school district and has curb appeal and the other is poorly kept and located ...

Cartoons like Betty Boop, books like the Nancy Drew series, movies like All Quiet on the Western Front and songs like “Georgia on My Mind” are now all in the public domain. In United States copyright ...

It’s hard to believe that it’s been barely a week since we were singing “Auld Lang Syne” and expressing cautious hope that 2026 might somehow prove better than 2025. (Spoiler: it has not.) Still, for ...

Google’s John Mueller answered a question about an expired domain that was unable to rank for relevant search queries, including its own brand name. The answer sheds light on how expired domains are ...

The original Popeye and Tintin characters have now entered the public domain. The original Popeye the Sailor first appeared in the King Features comic strip Thimble Theatre on January 17, 1929. By the ...

Registrars can now block people from registering tens of thousands of domain names that look like, are spelling variations of, or otherwise infringe on brand names. GlobalBlock, a solution already in ...