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Following is a list of public domain works with multimedia adaptations.This lists includes works for which installments exist in multiple forms of media, such as books, comic books, films, television series, and video games.
Here are the books and characters newly joining the list of works in the public domain in 2025.
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 most notable media featuring these characters is Steamboat Willie, but both The Gallopin' Gaucho and the silent version of Plane Crazy also entered the public domain that year. [3] The sound version of Plane Crazy, released in 1929, did enter the public domain until 2025. [5]
In 2025, the works unbound from copyright cap off the 1920s with literature, characters and more from 1929 entering the public domain.
Among the films that will enter the public domain in 2028 are the original Scarface, The Mummy with Boris Karloff, Tarzan the Ape Man with Johnny Weissmuller, Best Picture Academy Award-winner Grand Hotel, Josef von Sternberg's Shanghai Express with Marlene Dietrich, Ernst Lubitsch's Trouble in Paradise, The Music Box starring Stan Laurel and ...
That included books like "The Great Gatsby," which entered the public domain in 2021, and A.A. Milne's original "Winnie-the-Pooh," which joined the public the next year. The characters have since ...
Notable films entering the public domain in the United States included Don Juan (one of the early sound films) and The Son of the Sheik (Rudolph Valentino's final film). Unpublished works by authors who died in 1951 entered the public domain. Minecraft’s End Poem written by Julian Gough was released into the public domain under Creative ...