It’s a big year,” said Jennifer Jenkins of Duke’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain. “It's just the sheer familiarity ...

Nine Mickey Mouse cartoons, the Marx Brothers' film "Animal Crackers," and books by William Faulkner and Agatha Christie are ...

One of the hottest horror trends right now is the "public domain horror," where an enterprising filmmaker takes a popular, ...

On January 1, 2026, copyrights will expire for comics, books, movies, musical compositions and other creative works from 1930 ...

There are many film versions of the holiday classic, "A Christmas Carol." The novel, "A Christmas Carol" was written by Charles Dickens, and was released in 1843. The novel depicts how the ...

The beginning of 2026 brought new copyrighted items entering the public domain, including multiple iconic Disney cartoons and ...