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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 ...

It’s January, which means another batch of copyrighted work is now public domain More Mickey Mouse versions, early talkies, and classic novels all go public.

It’s a whole new year now, which means a bunch of other cultural works are now in the public domain, including a pack of popular standards from 1929.

With the beginning of 2025, paintings by the likes of Henri Matisse, Frida Kahlo and André Derain are entering the public domain.

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

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

Filmmakers working in the ever-expanding genre of public domain horror will soon have even more Mickey Mouse to play with.

January 1, 2025 will see a slew of classic Disney properties, including those featuring Mickey Mouse, enter the Public Domain. These works from 1929 can now be shared, copied, and built upon by ...

Works entering the public domain in 2025 include the first appearances of Tintin and Popeye, films in which Mickey Mouse talks, and books by Hemingway, Faulkner, Virginia Woolf, and more.

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

A farewell to copyright protection for Hemingway, Hammett — and Popeye “A Farewell to Arms” is among the works entering the public domain in 2025.