Another iconic comic strip character is joining Popeye in the public domain: Tintin, the swoopy-haired hero of Hergé's The Adventures of Tintin, who also made his debut in 1929. We're closer than ...

Popeye can punch without permission and Tintin can roam freely starting ... 1929 are among the intellectual properties becoming public domain in the United States on Jan. 1. That means they ...

However, since 2019, some of those existing copyrights have been expiring, meaning that those characters entered the public domain, as their owners lost exclusive rights to their likeness.