Copyright expired for the art, literature, and music of 1930, including Piet Mondrian and Paul Klee masterpieces, on Public ...

The original Betty Boop, the first four Nancy Drew books and Greta Garbo's first talkie are among the many works from 1930 ...

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

In a kind of copyright twofer, a film called “Cimarron,” and the book it was based on, are now in the public domain. The film ...

With each passing year, new artworks are shorn of their copyright protections and entered into the public domain, allowing ...

The list of 1930 classics that will no longer have copyright protections on Jan. 1 includes the first appearances of The ...

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, music, ...

Celebrate the public domain with the University Libraries during the week of March 10! Works from Frida Kahlo, the Marx Brothers, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, and more all entered the public ...

Every year a new set of works enters the public domain and becomes free for people to creatively reuse, depending on the copyright laws of your area. The Public Domain Review, a nonprofit online ...

An ongoing dispute with digital cultural heritage is whether high-resolution images of artworks in the public domain have a copyright when the photograph itself is new or improved. As Ben Sutton ...