On January 1, 2026, America's favorite teen detective officially escaped copyright protection. The first four Nancy Drew mysteries from 1930—The Secret of the Old Clock, The Hidden Staircase, The ...

Nearly 280 filmmakers entered the Internet Archive's annual contest celebrating creative freedom without copyright restrictions.

Each day, after getting out of elementary school, I trundled to my public library, and with spongy headphones and sticky fingers, I would select the same point-and-click mystery game to inch through.

The Nancy Drew novels were written under the name Carolyn Keene, although that was a pseudonym and several writers penned the books over the years. The book series featured a 16-year-old high school ...

Here are the significant books, films and characters joining the list of works in the public domain on Jan. 1, 2026. In a private ceremony at the abandoned Old City Hall subway station , Mamdani was ...