You may have heard familiar names like Betty Boop and Nancy Drew have entered what's called the public domain. The story of ...

US copyright law is kinda complicated, but as a rule, films generally remain under copyright for a period of 95 years, ...

Here are the significant books, films and characters joining the list of works in the public domain on Jan. 1, 2026.

The list of 1930 classics that will no longer have copyright protections on Jan. 1 includes the first appearances of The Little Engine That Could, Betty Boop, Nancy Drew, and Disney’s Goofy.

SAN FRANCISCO — Many of the people at the Internet Archive, a converted church in San Francisco’s Sunset District, felt like celebrating. There were men in old-fashioned suits and flat straw boaters ...

M-I-C-K-E-Y will soon belong to you and me. With several asterisks, qualification and caveats, Mickey Mouse in his earliest form will be the leader of the band of characters, films, and books that ...

An early iteration of Mickey Mouse has entered the public domain alongside Winnie-the-Pooh, Sherlock Holmes and Robin Hood, signaling potential legal action by companies like Disney and Warner Bros.

Steamboat Willie, lMickey Mouse, 1928). Many iconic copyrighted works (most notably, Mickey Mouse) that were first published prior to 1929 fell into the public domain in the United States starting ...

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 — ...

Several 1927 literary and cinematic works entered the public domain in 2023, including Arthur Conan Doyle’s final works featuring Sherlock Holmes. Each of these works were originally copyrighted for ...

This image released by Fathom Events shows Craig David Dowsett, in a scene from “Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey.” A.A. Milne’s 1926 book, “Winnie-the-Pooh,” with illustrations by E.H. Shepard, ...