Here are the significant books, films and characters joining the list of works in the public domain on Jan. 1, 2026.

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January 1 marked not only the start of 2020, but also Public Domain Day, when the copyright on a trove of long-protected works of art created in 1924 finally expired. Now, a cache of 95-year-old ...

As 2023 turned to 2024, yet more creative works have shed their copyright protections and joined the public domain. In the United States, which has the world’s longest and toughest copyright periods ...

Jan. 1 each year is public domain day, welcoming a new batch of works that lose copyright protection. This year, thousands of copyrighted works from 1928 will enter the United States’s public domain ...

I believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no ...

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An early Walt Disney movie featuring the first appearance of Mickey Mouse is among the copyrighted works from 1928 moving into the public domain on Jan. 1, 2024. But the cartoon creature who stars in ...

Popeye can punch without permission and Tintin can roam freely starting in 2025. The two classic comic characters who first appeared in 1929 are among the intellectual properties becoming public ...

Betty Boop is one of the most iconic cartoons of the 20th century. A pinup drawn to look like a 1920s flapper, the character debuted nearly a century ago and quickly became a household name: In 1932, ...