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 ...

1: a new batch of copyrighted works entering the public domain. In 2025, the rights to characters, books, plays, movies, drawings, paintings, and photography from 1929, as well as sound recordings ...

Happy Public Domain Day! Starting today, January 1, you can legally access, adapt, remix, and republish (depending on your jurisdiction) works by Henri Matisse, Frida Kahlo, and Robert Capa ...

What does it mean to be in the public domain? Creative work not covered by copyrights or considered the intellectual property of anyone is viewed as part of the public domain. Anyone can use what ...

A discussion of Public Domain must begin with reviewing two standard definitions of the term “Public Domain.” The first definition relates to content being published or made available to the public, ...

Numerically, it’s a drop in the bucket compared to the untold thousands of works under copyright that ... January 1 is known as Public Domain Day. It’s when restrictions on materials ...

Each year on January 1, 95-year-old copyrights expire and a multitude of works enter the public domain, allowing them to be freely adapted and interpreted by anyone in the United States.