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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.
Unpublished works whose authors died in 1954 entered the public domain in 2025.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
In 2025, the works unbound from copyright cap off the 1920s with literature, characters and more from 1929 entering the public domain.
Public Domain Day celebration in Poland (2008) Public Domain Day 2020 celebration in Indonesia. There is no explicit time when Public Domain Day began being observed (it was mentioned by Lawrence Lessig in 2004 [3]), but in recent years it has been mentioned by Project Gutenberg [12] and has been promoted by Creative Commons. [13]
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 ...
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 ...
Public Domain Day: Works published in 1929, including Popeye and Tintin, enter the public domain in the United States. [6] January 2 The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit rules in Ohio Telecom Association v. FCC that the Federal Communications Commission cannot enforce net neutrality. [7]
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