January 1: day of hangovers, gym subscription sign-ups, and a fresh batch of artworks being freed from the nearly century-long grip of copyright law. In the U.S., New Year’s Day is also Public Domain ...

An ongoing dispute with digital cultural heritage is whether high-resolution images of artworks in the public domain have a copyright when the photograph itself is new or improved. As Ben Sutton ...

The list of 1930 classics that will no longer have copyright protections on Jan. 1 includes the first appearances of The Little Engine That Could, Betty Boop, Nancy Drew, and Disney’s Goofy.

Copyright also expired for the original appearances of cartoon and comic book characters Betty Boop, Blondie, and Dagwood. Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Composition of Circles ...

With each passing year, new artworks are shorn of their copyright protections and entered into the public domain, allowing them to be used freely, without express permission from the estates that ...

Celebrate the public domain with the University Libraries during the week of March 10! Works from Frida Kahlo, the Marx Brothers, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, and more all entered the public ...

Every year a new set of works enters the public domain and becomes free for people to creatively reuse, depending on the copyright laws of your area. The Public Domain Review, a nonprofit online ...

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, music, ...

With 2025 not even a week old, predictions about what the new year has in store have already begun. The title track from the hit play and movie entered the public domain Wednesday alongside a bevy of ...

Stephen Johnson is Senior Staff Writer for Lifehacker where he covers pop culture, including two weekly columns “The Out of Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid Culture” and “What People are Getting Wrong this ...

US copyright law is kinda complicated, but as a rule, films generally remain under copyright for a period of 95 years, ...