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 — ...

Steamboat Willie, lMickey Mouse, 1928). Many iconic copyrighted works (most notably, Mickey Mouse) that were first published prior to 1929 fell into the public domain in the United States starting ...

Every year, the world celebrates the first of January as Public Domain Day, marking the release of copyrighted works into the public domain. In 2024, we saw popular intellectual properties enter the ...

Web hosting and domains are both essential to publishing a website. Learn how they work -- and how they work together. Dianna Gunn built her first WordPress website in 2008. Since then, she's poured ...

I may have vaguely heard of it over the last several years, but when “Public Domain Day” videos started popping up in my YouTube feed this year, and I saw that the original character of Nancy Drew and ...

When the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act was enacted in 1998, it prevented many works from falling into the public domain from 1998-2018. Beginning in 2019, works ...