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See wider lists compiled by Duke Law and the Public Domain Review for more information. Among the entries, we have: Comic characters like Popeye the Sailor Man, the first Tarzan strips and Tintin – although the latter, quite paradoxically, will not enter the public domain in Belgium, the native country of his creator, until at least 2034.
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 ...
Unpublished works whose authors died in 1954 entered the public domain in 2025. The Broadway Melody, MGM's first musical film and the winner of the second Academy Award for Best Picture, entered the public domain in 2025. Among the films that entered public domain in 2025 are the following: The Cocoanuts, the first film of the Marx Brothers
Public Domain Day events have been hosted on various dates in Poland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Israel. [14] [15] In January 2011, to celebrate Public Domain Day 2011, Open Knowledge Foundation launched The Public Domain Review, a web-based review of works which have entered the public domain. [16] [17]
Since the public domain began expanding annually again in 2019, the month of January has typically seen a large number of public domain works uploaded to sites such as Project Gutenberg, Standard Ebooks, and Wikimedia Commons. Standard Ebooks usually releases a number of notable newly-public domain books each January 1, and films in the public ...
An English logo of the 2023/2024 Public Domain Day. Public Domain Day is an observance of when copyrighted works expire and works enter into the public domain. [74] This legal transition of copyright works into the public domain usually happens every year on 1 January based on the individual copyright laws of each country. [74] Visual created ...
The South Dakota Senate narrowly votes for a bill requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom. The bill is similar to a 2024 law passed in Louisiana. [120] Boom Technology's XB-1 trijet supersonic demonstrator becomes the first privately-funded jet-powered plane to break the sound barrier at Mojave Air and Space ...
The Public Domain (ed), Winter/Spring 2003 edition of Law and Contemporary Problems (vol 66, ##1–2), Duke University School of Law; Bound by Law? Tales from the Public Domain, Duke University Center for the Study of the Public Domain 2006, ISBN 978-0-9741553-1-9; Cultural Environmentalism @ 10 (ed, with Lawrence Lessig), Spring 2007 edition ...