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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 ...
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 ]
Following is a list of public domain works with multimedia adaptations. This lists includes works for which installments exist in multiple forms of media, such as books, comic books, films, television series, and video games.
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.
Popeye first appeared as a peripheral character in January 1929 in E.C. Segar's "Thimble Theatre" comic strip. ... Mickey Mouse and 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' enter the public domain on Jan. 1, a ...
The earliest Betty Boop and Bimbo works will enter into the public domain, including Dizzy Dishes. The Disney character Pluto also makes his first appearance, first as an unnamed dog in The Chain Gang, and later called Rover in The Picnic, [a] along with Clarabelle Cow. Another Ub Iwerks cartoon creation, Flip the Frog, will also enter the ...