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,
More Mickey, Plus Popeye, Tintin, and More Enter Public Domain
Get ready, nerds: a whole host of iconic works of art — from film, music, animation, books, and more—are coming into the public domain in 2025. Last year's Public Domain Day was a big deal because it included the first-ever iteration of Disney's brand-defining Mickey Mouse.
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)
'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 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 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.
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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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A farewell to copyright protection for Hemingway, Hammett — and Popeye
The Marx Brothers’ first movie, the early iterations of the comic strip character Popeye, and Ernest Hemingway’s “A Farewell To Arms” are all entering the public domain on Jan. 1 ...
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Classic creations to enter public domain in 2025
The two classic comic characters who first appeared in 1929 are among the intellectual properties becoming public domain in the United States on Jan. 1. That means they can be used and repurposed ...