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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 ...
This lists includes works for which installments exist in multiple forms of media, such as books, comic books, films, television series, and video games. Multimedia franchises usually develop through a character or fictional world becoming popular in one medium, and then expanding to others through licensing agreements , with respect to ...
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.
The following is a list of creative works starring Mickey Mouse announced after Steamboat Willie, Plane Crazy and The Gallopin' Gaucho, released in 1928, entered the public domain in the United States on January 1, 2024. In January, multiple films and video games starring the iconic character were announced immediately.
In 2025, the works unbound from copyright cap off the 1920s with literature, characters and more from 1929 entering the public domain.
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 ...
Early Hitchcock and Disney films, song 'Singin' in the Rain,' “A Farewell to Arms”, and more enter public domain in 2025 Ryan Coleman January 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
The following is a list of animated films in the public domain in the United States for which there is a source to verify its status as public domain under the terms of U.S. copyright law. For more information, see List of films in the public domain in the United States. Films published before 1930 are not included because all such films are in ...