Need inspiration? A new database from The Public Domain Review is a veritable trove of creativity across centuries.

Now, it’s expanding its efforts with the launch of the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a new platform that compiles the more than 10,000 images featured across its essays and articles into ...

Some works enter the public domain the moment they are created, such as the AI-generated images below. Others take their ...

Professor Jennifer Jenkins, Director of Duke University’s Center for the Public Domain, joins WGN Radio’s Dave Plier to talk ...

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 ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Popeye and Tintin, as well work from several literary classics, are now a part of the public domain. New Year's Day isn't just the start of the new year, but it's also "Public ...

Other notable Disney works in the public domain in 2025 are Disney’s first “Silly Symphony” short, titled “The Skeleton Dance,” directed by Walt Disney and animated by Ub Iwerks.

Jan. 1 is Public Domain Day, meaning artworks from 1929 (or 1924 in the case of sound recordings) are now free for all creators to use and abuse to their hearts' content. The works of art ...

The title track from the hit play and movie entered the public domain Wednesday alongside a bevy of other songs, characters and literature first published in the mid-1920s. This year, Virginia ...

It’s a new year, and that means more works are headed to the public domain. This year, thousands of copyrighted works created in 1929, including the earliest versions of Popeye and the Belgian ...

Other 1929 songs now in the public domain include Fats Waller, Harry Brooks, and Andy Paul Razaf’s “Ain’t Misbehavin'” and “(What Did I Do To Be So) Black And Blue,” as well as George ...