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In 2025, the works unbound from copyright cap off the 1920s with literature, characters and more from 1929 entering the public domain.
Popeye can punch without permission and Tintin can roam freely starting in 2025. The two classic comic characters who first appeared in 1929 are among the intellectual properties becoming public domain in the United States on Jan. 1.
The characters Captain Easy, [7] Horace Horsecollar, Tintin, and Popeye the Sailor Man entered the public domain in 2025. [8] The same happens for the first Tarzan strips illustrated by Hal Foster that were launched in 1929. [ 7 ]
The following is a list of animated films in the public domain in the United States for which there is a source to verify its status as public domain under the terms of U.S. copyright law. For more information, see List of films in the public domain in the United States. Films published before 1930 are not included because all such films are in ...
Here are the books and characters newly joining the list of works in the public domain in 2025. Skip to main content ... from Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms" to the original Popeye.
Popeye also gives us a window into how a character's entry into the public domain doesn't require subsequent exploitations to adhere to his or her original conception.
The Popeye Show continued to air on Cartoon Network's spin-off network Boomerang. While many of the Paramount Popeye cartoons remained unavailable on video, a handful of those cartoons had fallen into public domain and were found on numerous low budget VHS tapes and later DVDs.
All motion pictures made and exhibited before 1930 are indisputably in the public domain in the United States. This date will move forward one year, every year, meaning that films released in 1930 will enter the public domain in 2026, films from 1931 in 2027, and so on, concluding with films from 1977 entering the public domain in 2073.