The new year brings a fresh start for classics as films, books, and characters enter the public domain with copyright protections expiring. Opinion: The American empire has entered its final act Ohio ...

A new year brings another wave of creative works entering the public domain as their 95‑year copyright terms expire. This year’s additions include the 1930 Best Picture winner All Quiet on the Western ...

New Year's Day commemorates the passing of time and the start of a new chapter, so it is fitting that the same day also presents an opportunity to breathe new life into thousands of creative works ...

The new year brings new material into the public domain, with works from 1930 that include nine new Mickey Mouse cartoons, Betty Boop, a Marx Brothers movie and novels from William Faulkner, Agatha ...

Betty Boop and Blondie are joining Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh in the public domain. The first appearances of the classic cartoon and comic characters are among the pieces of intellectual ...

LOS ANGELES -- Betty Boop and "Blondie" are joining Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh in the public domain. The first appearances of the classic cartoon and comic characters are among the pieces of ...

LOS ANGELES — Betty Boop and “Blondie” are joining Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh in the public domain. The first appearances of the classic cartoon and comic characters are among the pieces of ...