Popeye the Sailor Man entered the public domain this month, and so just as we saw with Mickey Mouse last year, we’re braced for an influx of horror movies featuring the now-free-to-use children’s ...
In the U.S., the length of copyright protection for works published before 1978 is 95 years. That means works from 1929 and sound recordings from 1924 are open to all in the U.S. from January 1, 2025.
A Sailor Man soulslike, perhaps. It worked for Pinocchio in Lies of P . Personally, I'm more excited about Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest hitting public domain.
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 ...