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alleging it's a politically motivated attempt by the BJP to tarnish their image. Sachin Pilot asserted the ED and CBI are being misused as political tools, while Supriya Shrinate accused Prime ...
Now, it’s expanding its efforts with the launch of the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a new platform that compiles the more than 10,000 images featured across its essays and articles into ...
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 ...
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 famous additions to the public domain was the first iteration of Mickey ...
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 ...
The earliest versions of Tintin and his dog Snowy from Hergé's Adventures Of Tintin are now in the public domain in the USA. Although in the UK and EU, which sees copyright maintained for the ...
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.
Jennifer Jenkins, the director of Duke Law School’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain, documents each year’s Public Domain Day highlights on the center’s website. “For copyrighted ...
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 ...
On January 1, 2025, Popeye—along with thousands of other copyrighted creations—will enter the public domain in the United ... designed to protect words or images linked to a specific brand.