It’s frequently claimed that copyright law should be made more restrictive and copyright terms extended in order to provide an incentive for content creators. Public domain works – those that exist ...

Every January 1, pop culture quietly resets in the U.S. Old books, films, TV shows, photos, comic strips, songs, and more lose their copyright protection and enter the public domain, transforming from ...

As 2023 turned to 2024, yet more creative works have shed their copyright protections and joined the public domain. In the United States, which has the world’s longest and toughest copyright periods ...

Every year older movies and books that were written decades ago get released into the public domain. That means as an artist you can use the source material for your own creative endeavors without ...

Fritz Lang’s trailblazing sci-fi epic Metropolis, the final Sherlock Holmes stories (and the detective character himself), and musical compositions like “Puttin’ on the Ritz” and “My Blue Heaven” are ...

When writing earlier this week about Adobe's sponsoring of the SQLite project, I ran into a complicated issue: is software released into the public domain also open-source software? I have an editor ...