As we welcome 2025, everyone can also welcome these iconic works as they entered the public domain in the U.S.

The new year brings a wave of classic works into the public domain, including iconic characters like Popeye and Tintin. These characters, along with thousands of other copyrighted works from ...

Popeye’s very first iteration, who didn’t eat spinach to gain strength, is now free to copy, share, and adapt.

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Popeye the Sailor, created by Elzie Crisler Segar, is now public domain. Popeye is among a slew of 1929 characters and works, ...

All of the films, books, art, and sound recordings released in the entire decade of the 1920s are now officially part of the ...

More work from major writers, directors and musicians — along with legendary characters — entered the public domain to start ...

But this Popeye isn’t the one that eats spinach to grow big muscles; the brawny sailor didn’t start eating spinach to gain strength until 1932 (though the very first Popeye could still pack a ...

Bored of waiting for his bride, Henry had decided to welcome her with what he considered a hilarious prank. He and a group of friends rode to Rochester in matching hoods and capes, like Robin Hood and ...