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 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 ...

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 ...

In 2020, however, Gershwin's jazzy classical classic fell out of the friendly skies – and landed in the public domain. Which means, when the copyright expires, anyone is free to use and build ...

As 2023 turned to 2024, yet more creative works have shed their copyright protections and joined the public domain. In the United States, which has the world’s longest and toughest copyright ...

However, since 2019, some of those existing copyrights have been expiring, meaning that those characters entered the public domain, as their owners lost exclusive rights to their likeness.

This Jan. 1, readers, archivists, and creatives in the United States celebrated a special holiday: the largest Public Domain Day in 21 years. The legal ownership of hundreds of works of classic ...

Welcome to 2018! January 1 means it’s time to celebrate Public Domain Day. As is Hyperallergic tradition, we’re celebrating the visual artists whose work is entering the public domain this year.

The Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Deutschland believe that as far as the US is concerned, digitised versions of public domain images are also in the public domain, and can therefore remain on ...