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From Popeye to books by William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, works from 1929 and sound recordings from 1924 have entered the public domain. It’s a particularly ... the vegetable does appear in a ...

While Tintin will enter the U.S. public domain in 2025, he will remain copyrighted in the EU until 2054. This is because EU copyright lasts ... women’s lack of free expression in that era.

In 2024, one of the most famous additions to the public domain was the first iteration of Mickey Mouse, which lost copyright protection ... works that will be free to use this year include ...

Popeye the Sailor is strong to the finish ’cause he eats his spinach and now he’s entered the public domain alongside thousands of other copyrighted works. This means the character is free to copy ...

The title track from the hit play and movie entered the public domain ... free for use in their original versions. Olive Oyl, Popeye's spunky side-kick and sweetheart is already unbound from ...

In a statement, Anthropic said Claude “isn’t designed to be used for copyright infringement, and we have numerous processes in place designed to prevent such infringement.” It added ...

free for you to remix, reuse, misuse, and generally do whatever you would like with. Huzzah! Oh, and here’s why the public domain matters: The public domain is also a wellspring for creativity. You ...

In 1787, the founding fathers agreed that copyrights should only last for a limited amount of time in order to “promote the progress of science and useful arts.” Over two centuries later, that ...

All of the films, books, art, and sound recordings released in the entire decade of the 1920s are now officially part of the public domain.

With the beginning of 2025, paintings by the likes of Henri Matisse, Frida Kahlo, and André Derain are shedding their copyright protections and entering the public domain in the United States ...