What is the public domain? According to the Center for the Study of the Public Domain, works that enter the public domain can be legally shared without permission or fees.

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 ...

Here are the books and characters newly joining the list of works in the public domain in 2025.

Beloved cartoons are entering the public domain next year – but what does that mean? Early sound films by Alfred Hitchcock and John Ford, and music by Cole Porter and Fats Waller, are also included ...

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. Following ...

2025 features Popeye joining Mickey Mouse in the public domain, along with the first appearance of Mickey's signature white gloves.

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

Thanks to public domain, Tintin can now skeleton dance to Rhapsody in Blue Works by Walt Disney, Virginia Woolf, Fats Waller and many more entered public domain today.

Several iconic characters from 1929 are headed to the public domain this year, including the earliest versions of Popeye and Tintin.

The earliest Tintin and Popeye stories enter the United States public domain in 2025, along with a dozen more Mickey Mouse shorts.