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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I’m talking, of course, about public domain and the intricacies of copyright law. A few years ago, a 20-year moratorium on published works entering the public domain in the US ended, and now ...

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 ...