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

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.

Pickleball has become a popular sport, with places around the Cleveland area working to incorporate ways for people to play ...

The copyrights of thousands of 20th-century films, books, compositions and sound recordings expire on Jan. 1, making them ...

(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 ...

Jan. 1 marks the dawn of a new era for Popeye and Tintin. It's the day the nonagenarian cartoon characters officially enter the U.S. public domain along with a treasure trove of other iconic works.

Starting January 1, 2025, beloved comic characters Popeye and Tintin will enter the public domain in the United States, ...