Everything you need to know about Public Domain Day 2025

Popeye, Disney’s Skeleton Dance, and More Hit Public Domain in 2025
Filmmakers working in the ever-expanding genre of public domain horror will soon have even more Mickey Mouse to play with.
Yes, Popeye can eat spinach: Everything you need to know about Public Domain Day 2025
Public Domain Day, meaning artworks from 1929 (or 1924 in the case of sound recordings) are now free for all creators to use and abuse to their hearts' content. The works of art, music, literature, and film now entering the public domain will be yours,
10 Works Entering the Public Domain in 2025
The properties entering the public domain in 2025 were first released in 1929—or, in the case of sound recordings, 1924. Here’s an incomplete list: “Singin’ in the Rain” by Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown (Musical Composition)
These 1929 Copyrighted Works Enter the Public Domain in 2025
In 2025, the rights to characters, books, plays, movies, drawings, paintings, and photography from 1929, as well as sound recordings from 1924 will expire, meaning that the public (that's us) can legally copy,
'Popeye,' 'Tintin' among characters falling into public domain in 2025
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.
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Column: A Faulkner classic and Popeye enter the public domain while copyright only gets more confusing
The Sound and the Fury,' 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'The Maltese Falcon' lose their copyright protection on Jan. 1, and it's about time
Popeye, Tintin enter the public domain in 2025
(and sound recordings from 1924) will enter into the public domain in the United States, and that includes a good portion of Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, a work of explicit and broad anti-Soviet/Marxist propaganda that Hergé was so embarrassed by that he refused to allow it to be reprinted for 40 years.
Popeye and Tintin enter public domain in US in 2025, but the spinach is still copyrighted
The sailor and boy detective can be reproduced without permission from 2025, but some details, like Tintin’s red hair, are still copyrighted.
Popeye, Tintin and a Hemingway novel to enter public domain in 2025
Pop open a can of spinach and grab a furry friend because Popeye and Tintin are among the classic comic characters becoming part of the public domain in the US. This means these two iconic characters, who first appeared in 1929, can be used and repurposed without permission or payment to copyright holders from next year.
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Hitchcock and Hemingway: All the Good Stuff Coming to the Public Domain in 2025
This year’s crop of creative works exiting copyright protection includes Gershwin’s 'An American In Paris,' Virginia Woolf’s ...
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Beloved cartoons are entering the public domain next year – but what does that mean?
The two classic comic characters who first appeared in 1929 are among the intellectual properties becoming public domain in the United States on January 1. That means they can be used and ...
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Popeye and Tintin set to enter public domain in 2025 with copyrights expiring
The two classic comic characters who first appeared in 1929 are among the intellectual properties becoming public domain ...