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There are multiple licenses which aim to release works into the public domain. In 2000 the WTFPL was released as a public domain like software license. [58] Creative Commons (created in 2002 by Lawrence Lessig, Hal Abelson, and Eric Eldred) has introduced several public-domain-like licenses, called Creative Commons licenses. These give authors ...
'The Sound and the Fury,' 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'The Maltese Falcon' lose their copyright protection on Jan. 1, and it's about time
Here are the books and characters newly joining the list of works in the public domain in 2025.
Since the public domain began expanding annually again in 2019, the month of January has typically seen a large number of public domain works uploaded to sites such as Project Gutenberg, Standard Ebooks, and Wikimedia Commons. Standard Ebooks usually releases a number of notable newly-public domain books each January 1, and films in the public ...
Characters such as Mickey Mouse have been held to have acquired such a secondary meaning and are thus protected under trademark law. [29] Right to Publicity: This right traces its origins in the tort of privacy and is the right to prevent others from commercially exploiting one's name and likeness.
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 ]
20 years from publication (copyright of State, the provinces, the communes, the academies or public cultural organizations, or to private legal entities of a non-profit making character) Yes [116]: s. 25, s. 32ter Jamaica [117] Life + 95 years (for authors that died in 1962 or later) [118] Life + 50 years (for authors that died before 1962) [119]
Recordings fixed between 1923 and February 14, 1972, will be phased into the public domain in the following decades. [52] [53] Specifically, works fixed 1923–1946 are public after 100 years and works fixed 1947–1956 after 110 years of fixation. Works fixed 1 January 1957 – 14 February 1972 will all become public on 15 February 2067. [48]