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Popeye, Tintin, and films from Alfred Hitchcock and the Marx Brothers entered the public domain in the U.S. this week.

A satirical look at how this year's new public domain entries could be turned into horror, from Mickey Mouse and Popeye to ...

A new year brings lots of new things — including a new batch of entries into the public domain. 2025’s list includes ...

Fans of Popeye and Tintin may be seeing a lot more of the nostalgic cartoon characters this year — though likely in a new and more mature light.   The fictional sailor and the young Belgian reporter ...

The earliest versions of Popeye and Tintin have now entered the public domain, along with more iterations of Mickey Mouse.

There are a ton of new characters, books, films, and songs joining Mickey Mouse and Winnie The Pooh in the public domain grab ...

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More work from major writers, directors and musicians — along with legendary characters — entered the public domain to start ...

It’s a new year, and that means more works are headed to the public domain. This year, thousands of copyrighted works created ...

Each year on Jan. 1, copyright protections expire on a new batch of media, like books, movies, characters and music.