More work from major writers, directors and musicians — along with legendary characters — entered the public domain to start ...

Hemingway's "A Farewell To Arms" and early iterations of Popeye will enter the public domain on Jan. 1, 2025 — and there's ...

Decades-old copyright legislation varies by region but is generally too outdated to be reliably applied to the new challenges presented by generative A.I. This has left both A.I. developers and ...

Every January 1 in the Books department, we like to make an extra toast for a concurrent holiday: Public Domain Day.

Adaptations of Holmes stories are exploding now that the detective is in the public domain. Critics believe it should have ...

January 1 introduced the 1929 class of works which signified richness in the era’s literature and cinematic technology.

The singer-songwriter and social activist best known as one-third of the folk-music group Peter, Paul and Mary, has died at ...

Copyright was a big thing even back in 1922 when Nosferatu came out. 'It looked like Armageddon': 5 dead as California wildfires rage in LA area ...

One of Germany's highest appeals courts is weighing whether Birkenstock sandals should count as works of applied art, which ...

To understand modern takes on surrealism, it's key to understand the origins of the art and design movement. According to Bilotta, surrealism at its core "sought to dismantle all the traditional ...

The longtime paramour of a prominent, married Manhattan art gallerist allegedly neglected and starved him to death — and tried to steal his $50 million fortune, his family claims in court papers.

What it tells us about the past: This marble statuette depicts a dwarf-dancer, which was a common motif in ancient Mediterranean art. But while examples from Greece were usually exaggerated or ...