Mickey Mouse has long been a symbol in the copyright wars ... 20 years went by when nothing entered the public domain. Works began to lose copyright protection again in 2019, and since then ...

In 2020, however, Gershwin's jazzy classical classic fell out of the friendly skies – and landed in the public domain. Which means, when the copyright expires, anyone is free to use and build ...

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 ...

DC Comics’ owner, won’t be able to stop these characters from entering the public domain—the time for that has passed after the copyright ... it owns for the Bat symbol or Superman’s ...

Duke Law School’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain, as usual, has a roundup of prominent works whose copyright protections lapse in the US today. The list includes sound recordings from ...

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 ...

Last year, it was Mickey Mouse. This year, Popeye the Sailor joins Mickey as a new entrant to the public domain — that is, shedding his core copyright protections on Jan. 1. He's merely the most ...

Mickey Mouse has long been a symbol in the copyright wars ... 20 years went by when nothing entered the public domain. Works began to lose copyright protection again in 2019, and since then, it’s been ...

Last year, it was Mickey Mouse. This year, Popeye the Sailor joins Mickey as a new entrant to the public domain — that is, shedding his core copyright protections on Jan. 1. He’s merely the ...