The dynamics of family structure is undergoing a transformation. Declining fertility and mortality rates are leading to new ...

Google is making a big change to its domain structure. Soon, all country-specific Google domains will redirect to Google.com. While this change affects Google’s own domain structure, Google has ...

A few years ago, a 20-year moratorium on published works entering the public domain in the US ended, and now, every January 1 a new collection of previously uncopyable, unmodifiable works is made ...

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.

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.

But, in the U.S., commissioned works including books and other media published between 1924 and 1978 enter the public domain 95 years after they were released, meaning that works published in 1929 ...

2025 Public Domain Day: Popeye, Tintin, more legendary artwork up for grabs Anna Kaufman USA TODAY 0:00 ...

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 ...

Public domain enjoyers can now partake in using Popeye and even more Mickey Mouse in 2025. The start of a new year brings with it new additions to the public domain, which allows the free use of ...

Other notable literary works now in public domain include A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf, A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemmingway, Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie and The Sound and ...

“Looking ahead, an exciting new cast of characters will become public domain in the coming years: Betty Boop and Pluto (originally named Rover) in 2026, Goofy in 2028 (originally named Dippy ...

With every new year comes new works that are set to go into the public domain. For 2025, the most notable include Disney titles such as Silly Symphony short The Skeleton Dance and Mickey Mouse ...