It's a new year, and that means a new crop of iconic characters—some more than others—entering the public domain. According ...

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

It’s a new year, and that means more works are headed to the public domain. This year, thousands of copyrighted works created ...

Popeye can punch without permission and Tintin can roam freely starting in 2025. The two classic comic characters who first ...

Tintin, now in the Public Domain, gets a modern revival in The Big Lie, to be Kickstartered this year from Fabrice Sapolsky.

Public Domain Day, meaning artworks from 1929 (or 1924 in the case of sound recordings) are now free for all creators to use ...

A new year brings lots of new things — including a new batch of entries into the public domain. 2025’s list includes ...

(and sound recordings from 1924) will enter into the public domain in the United States, and that includes a good portion of Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, a work of explicit and broad anti-Soviet ...

The copyrights of thousands of 20th-century films, books, compositions and sound recordings expire on Jan. 1, making them ...

Jan. 1 marks the dawn of a new era for Popeye and Tintin. It's the day the nonagenarian cartoon characters officially enter the U.S. public domain along with a treasure trove of other iconic works.