With their 95-year copyrights finished, iconic characters, films and musicians from the Jazz Age can be used without ...

Nine new Mickey Mouse cartoons also are becoming public domain, two years after Steamboat Willie made the first version of ...

Betty Boop, Nancy Drew, Pluto the dog and many more works of art and culture are now in the public domain. Here's what to ...

This year, the earliest versions of Betty Boop, Blondie, nine Mickey Mouse cartoons, and the first week of the Mickey Mouse ...

The original version of Betty Boop has entered the public domain. The cartoon character appeared in her original iteration in ...

Fans of the 1930s character Betty Boop can rejoice as a precursor of the iconic cartoon is now in the public domain, as of ...

Today, the character enters the public domain—but perhaps only as a dog. The bizarre saga illustrates what's wrong with ...

Thousands of works from 1930 are now in the public domain for anyone's use, including original, recognizable figures such as ...

On January 1, 2026, copyrights will expire for comics, books, movies, musical compositions and other creative works from 1930 ...

Nine Mickey Mouse cartoons, the Marx Brothers' film "Animal Crackers," and books by William Faulkner and Agatha Christie are ...

Works released in 1930 hit the U.S. public domain on January 1, including early animation icons, forgotten favorites, and the art form's formative experiments.

Betty Boop, the saucy cartoon flapper who debuted nearly a century ago, is about to lose her copyright protection—at least in ...