1, more classic works of art or characters enter the public domain, and exploitation filmmakers with a tiny budget and a big taste for grisliness are scouring the list, looking for suddenly free ...

The title track from the hit play and movie entered the public domain Wednesday alongside a ... class from 1929 − the year available for free use in 2025 − each work was singular for its ...

Other 1929 songs now in the public domain include Fats Waller, Harry Brooks, and Andy Paul Razaf’s “Ain’t Misbehavin'” and “(What Did I Do To Be So) Black And Blue,” as well as George ...

are now free to reuse and repurpose in the US. Duke Law School’s Center for the Study of Public Domain has once again rounded up all the most iconic works that have been freed from the bounds of ...

Here are some of the most notable works that are newly free to use. When a work is in the public domain, it has no copyright protection, meaning anyone can use and build upon it at leisure.

The public domain works by keeping works under copyright protection for a set period of time. Once that time expires, anyone is free to use and build upon it in the public domain. These rules were ...

Jennifer Jenkins, the director of Duke Law School’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain, documents each ... short Steamboat Willie — became free to use. This year, a dozen more Mickey ...

So, each New Year’s Day since then has expanded the public-domain universe further by liberating such creative works as Fritz Lang’s 1927 silent classic Metropolis (part of the class of 2023 ...

While not starring Mickey Mouse, there’s another Disney animated short that will soon enter the Public Domain in 2025 as well: The Skeleton Dance. This first installment in the Silly Symphony ...

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 ...

All public parking areas in Dubai will be free of charge on Wednesday, 1 January 2025, for the New Year’s holiday, Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) announced on Friday. However, multi-storey ...