President Biden is using a decades-old law to block drilling for oil in more than 625 million acres of U.S. ocean — the largest region a president has ever protected using this authority.

Screenshot showing the Ryazan Oil Refinery Company located at the Yuzhny Industrial Hub in Ryazan. The Moscow courts website reported on Thursday that the Khamovnichesky District Court had made a ...

Police are appealing for the public's help to find three striking paintings of lions stolen from an art studio. Dorset Police said the paintings were among a number taken during a break in at ...

It’s become an annual ritual: Every Jan. 1, more classic works of art or characters enter the public domain, and exploitation filmmakers with a tiny budget and a big taste for grisliness are ...

List of popular intellectual property entering the public domain in 2025 Works from 1929 and sound recordings from 1924 are now open to all in the U.S. This means all books, films, songs and art ...

Meghan Markle has returned to Instagram, and according to a prominent royal commentator, her new social media account needs to be lucrative if she wants to use it to revive her public image.

In 1787, the founding fathers agreed that copyrights should only last for a limited amount of time in order to “promote the progress of science and useful arts.” Over two centuries later, that ...

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 ...

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 ...

What’s behind this giddy mood? News that the compositions referenced in that intro are among those entering the public domain in 2025, as outlined by the team at the Duke Center for the Study of the ...

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 ...