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 ...

In 2025, the works unbound from copyright cap off the 1920s with literature, characters and more from 1929 entering the public domain.

Here are some new public domain titles that could become horror movies in 2025 A Farewell To Arms, A Room of One's Own, and the characters of Popeye and Tintin are all up for grabs this year.

In 2025, the works unbound from copyright cap off the 1920s with literature, characters and more from 1929 entering the public domain.

Popeye and Tintin are now in the public domain Popeye’s very first iteration, who didn’t eat spinach to gain strength, is now free to copy, share, and adapt.

Tintin, now in the Public Domain, gets a modern revival in The Big Lie, to be Kickstartered this year from Fabrice Sapolsky.

Popeye can punch without permission and Tintin can roam freely starting in 2025. The two classic comic characters who first appeared in 1929 are among the intellectual properties becoming public ...

Thanks to public domain, Tintin can now skeleton dance to Rhapsody in Blue Works by Walt Disney, Virginia Woolf, Fats Waller and many more entered public domain today.

Characters such as 'Popeye,' 'Buck Rogers,' and 'Tintin' are among the list of works falling into the public domain as of 2025. This as the copyright expires on works produced in 1929.

Works entering the public domain in 2025 include the first appearances of Tintin and Popeye, films in which Mickey Mouse talks, and books by Hemingway, Faulkner, Virginia Woolf, and more.