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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is pleased to announce that the ICANN83 Policy Forum will ...
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 ...
Nominet, the official .UK domain registry and one of the largest country code registries, has confirmed that its network was breached two weeks ago using an Ivanti VPN zero-day vulnerability.
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 ...
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 ...
Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. It’s a new year, and that means more works are headed to the public domain. This year, thousands of copyrighted works created in 1929, including ...
Jan. 1 is Public Domain Day, meaning artworks from 1929 (or 1924 in the case of sound recordings) are now free for all creators to use and abuse to their hearts' content. The works of art ...
Previously, she founded The Mary Sue. Tintin, the seminal hero of the pulp genre of boy adventurers, enters the United States public domain in 2025, though in a way that probably wouldn’t please ...
The spinach-fueled sailor is one of many characters and works that will lose their copyright status and enter the public domain on January 1, 2025. While the minutiae of copyright law is ...
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 ...
Even if you're not one for getting dressed up and going out to ring in the new year, there's still something to celebrate on Jan. 1: a new batch of copyrighted works entering the public domain.
New partnership provides protection from child sexual abuse material for 37,842,025 new domains in six months 'Now is the time' to act, with IWF protection available at no cost, thanks to ...