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

Get the latest art news, reviews and opinions from Hyperallergic. “Around this time last year I had the idea to gather all the images in the Public Domain Review into a separate archive ...

With the beginning of 2025, paintings by the likes of Henri Matisse, Frida Kahlo, and André Derain are shedding their copyright protections and entering the public domain in the United States ...

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 ...

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.

Jennifer Jenkins, the director of Duke Law School’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain, documents each year’s Public Domain Day highlights on the center’s website. “For copyrighted ...

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 ...

Tintin, the seminal hero of the pulp genre of boy adventurers, enters the United States public ... domain, enabling gleefully emotionally transgressive and carefully not-legally transgressive ...

The spinach-fueled sailor is one of many characters and works that will lose their copyright status and enter the public domain on January ... books, art, music, plays) expire after 95 years ...