A new year means a new start, and for some pieces of media, it means entering the public domain. In 2024, one of the most famous additions to the public domain was the first iteration of Mickey Mouse, ...

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— / I took the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference.” For years, those iconic lines of verse in Robert Frost’s “Stopping by the Woods on a ...

With the new year comes a new crop of books, films and music going into the public domain. Most older works of art get copyright protection for 95 years in this country, and then they're pretty much ...

For quite some time, copyright laws have shielded many iconic and well-known characters. However, since 2019, some of those existing copyrights have been expiring, meaning that those characters ...

Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, the low-budget horror film that opened in America on Friday, has grossed more than $2.5 million globally, according to Box Office Mojo. The filmmakers struck gold by ...

The first of January ushers in a new year, a new month and new entries to the list of works in the public domain. While 2024 saw many popular intellectual properties lose copyright protection — ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Other notable Disney works in the public domain in 2025 are Disney’s first “Silly Symphony” short, ...

Kristofer Erickson receives funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). It’s frequently claimed that copyright law should be made more restrictive and copyright terms extended in ...

Imagine if a photo of you, without your knowledge or consent, began appearing in advertisements around the world? That’s what happened to actor B.J. Novak, best known for his role in “The Office,” ...

Information that is available to the public is excluded from export controls. However, there are differences between how the ITAR and EAR treat this exclusion. They share the idea that publicly ...

What a year it was for Anglo-American literature and the arts! 1925 was the year of heralded novels by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Virginia Woolf, seminal works by Sinclair Lewis, Franz Kafka, Gertrude ...