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The characters Captain Easy, [7] Horace Horsecollar, Tintin, and Popeye the Sailor Man entered the public domain in 2025. [8] The same happens for the first Tarzan strips illustrated by Hal Foster that were launched in 1929. [ 7 ]
As of Jan. 1, 2025, several iconic books and characters are now freely available for public use, ... List of popular intellectual property entering the public domain in 2025.
In 2025, the works unbound from copyright cap off the 1920s with literature, characters and more from 1929 entering the public domain.
John Steinbeck’s first novel, “A Cup of Gold,” from 1929, will also enter the public domain. The British novelist Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own,” an extended essay that would become a landmark in feminism from the modernist literary luminary, is also on the list. Her novel “Mrs. Dalloway” is already in the U.S. public ...
All motion pictures made and exhibited before 1930 are indisputably in the public domain in the United States. This date will move forward one year, every year, meaning that films released in 1930 will enter the public domain in 2026, films from 1931 in 2027, and so on, concluding with films from 1977 entering the public domain in 2073.
Also entering the public domain this week, as Jenkins observes, are about a dozen Mickey Mouse films, including one in which he speaks his first words ("Hot dogs! Hot dogs!") and wears his iconic ...
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.
King Kong, who has one of his enormous feet in the public domain already because of complications between companies that own a piece of him, will shed his remaining chains in 2029. Then, in the 2030s, Superman will soar into the public domain, followed in quick succession by Batman, the Joker and Wonder Woman. The possibility of new stories is ...