With the beginning of 2025, paintings by the likes of Henri Matisse, Frida Kahlo, and André Derain are shedding their copyright protections and entering the public domain in the United States ...

Since 2011, the online journal and not-for-profit project Public Domain Review has been dedicated to exploring, researching, and cataloguing copyright-free historical material from across art ...

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 Mouse, ...

List of popular intellectual property entering the public domain in 2025 Works from 1929 and sound recordings from 1924 are now open to all in the U.S. This means all books, films, songs and art ...

A host of famous artworks and much-loved characters will ... That means that from next year, a host of works from 1929 will enter the public domain. This means that copyright will expire on ...

The title track from the hit play and movie entered the public domain Wednesday alongside a bevy of other songs, characters and literature first published in the mid-1920s. This year, Virginia ...

Professor Jennifer Jenkins, Director of Duke University’s Center for the Public Domain, joins WGN Radio’s Dave Plier to talk ...