The lawsuit seeks clarity around whether companies can exploit the earliest depiction of Mickey Mouse from a 1928 animated short. By Winston Cho Disney is continuing to enforce its intellectual ...

Each year on January 1, 95-year-old copyrights expire and a multitude of works enter the public domain, allowing them to be freely adapted and interpreted by anyone in the United States. Following ...

MLCommons, a nonprofit AI safety working group, has teamed up with AI dev platform Hugging Face to release one of the world’s largest collections of public domain voice recordings for AI research. The ...

A handful of classic songs and musical arrangements are entering the Public Domain this year. This means their copyright either expired due to age or has not been renewed by the copyright owner. These ...

Georges Seurat's "Seascape (Gravelines)" (1890) is among the works in the Public Domain Review's new Public Domain Image Archive (via National Gallery of Art) Determining what materials are considered ...

With 2025 officially starting, a handful of iconic characters and works have entered the U.S. public domain. With the copyrights for these books expiring, the public can now use and adapt these works ...

A new year means a new start, and for some pieces of media, it means entering the public domain. In 2024, one of the most famous additions to the public domain was the first iteration of Mickey Mouse, ...

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 — ...

With 2025 not even a week old, predictions about what the new year has in store have already begun. Maybe a new Rihanna album (don't cross your fingers) or another Super Bowl win for Travis Kelce and ...

Last year, the original version of Mickey Mouse went into the public domain. That doesn't mean that anyone can use Mickey Mouse's image for whatever they want, but it does mean that the version of ...

It’s January, and for people in the US, that means the same thing it’s meant every January since 2019: a new batch of previously copyrighted works have entered the public domain. People can publish, ...