books that lost copyright protection in 2024 The 1928 original script for Walt Disney's “Steamboat Willie,” the first cartoon to star Mickey Mouse, entered the public domain Jan. 1.

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 ...

Art that's out of copyright exists ... With The House at Pooh Corner entering the public domain, Tigger, who makes his debut in that book's pages, will now be free to hack and slash alongside ...

All of the films, books, art, and sound recordings released in the entire decade of the 1920s are now officially part of the ...

The spinach-fueled sailor is one of many characters and works that will lose their copyright status and enter the public domain on January ... works (films, books, art, music, plays) expire ...

Professor Jennifer Jenkins, Director of Duke University’s Center for the Public Domain, joins WGN Radio’s Dave Plier to talk about the thousands of copyrighted works from 1929 entering the US public ...

Beyond music, there's some surprising films, books, plays and ... re-imagine classic works of art and beloved IP can often misfire "When works go into the public domain, they can legally be ...

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 ...

Each year on 1 January thousands of US copyrights expire, allowing creative works to be shared in the the public domain (copyrights on works—published books, films, songs and art—typically ...

It’s an impressive level of comic book craftsmanship that winks at the ... and funny those same ideas are in the pages of Public Domain. It’s not that the two stories demand comparison ...

All of the films, books, art, and sound recordings released in the entire decade of the 1920s are now officially part of the public domain.