A new study details the evolutionary change of Anna's Hummingbirds, finding their beaks have grown longer and more tapered to ...

(CNN) — Crowds of mourners waited in line on Sunday for a chance to visit Pope Francis’ final resting place in the Santa Maria Maggiore church in Rome, a day after his funeral service that was ...

The rare pictorial copies of “hukumnamas” (edicts) and “messages”, mostly penned by Sikh Gurus, have come in public domain. The documents written in medieval prose in Gurmukhi script have ...

A handful of classic songs and musical arrangements are entering the Public Domain this year. This means their copyright either expired due to age or has not been renewed by the copyright owner.

Yet the freedom to re-imagine classic works of art and beloved IP can often misfire "When works go into the public domain, they can legally be shared, without permission or fee. Community theaters ...

The world wouldn't have the 2000 classic "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" nor the chaotic and poorly reviewed recent horror flicks featuring Winnie the Pooh and Mickey Mouse without the public domain.

The earliest versions of Tintin and his dog Snowy from Hergé's Adventures Of Tintin are now in the public domain in the USA. Although in the UK and EU, which sees copyright maintained for the ...

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 ...

Other notable Disney works in the public domain in 2025 are Disney’s first “Silly Symphony” short, titled “The Skeleton Dance,” directed by Walt Disney and animated by Ub Iwerks.

With a new year comes a new crop of books, films, music, and other works falling into the public domain. For 2025, that includes works that were originally published in 1929. According to the Duke ...

The two classic comic characters who first appeared in 1929 are among the intellectual properties becoming public domain in the United States on Jan. 1. That means they can be used and repurposed ...