Superman. Captain America. The Fantastic Four. All of these characters, and many, many more, are getting new movies this year ...

Some works enter the public domain the moment they are created, such as the AI-generated images below. Others take their ...

Professor Jennifer Jenkins, Director of Duke University’s Center for the Public Domain, joins WGN Radio’s Dave Plier to talk ...

Every year, the world celebrates the first of January as Public Domain Day, marking the release of copyrighted works into the public domain. In 2024, ...

Popeye the Sailor Man entered the public domain this month, and so just as we saw with Mickey Mouse last year, we’re braced for an influx of horror movies featuring the now-free-to-use children’s ...

Last year, it was Mickey Mouse. This year, Popeye the Sailor joins Mickey as a new entrant to the public domain — that is, ...

As readers everywhere look back at Popeye’s first appearance, a shocking discovery about his romance with his beloved Olive ...

Here’s the trailer for the upcoming Popeye horror thriller Popeye’s Revenge , which sees the iconic spinach-eating sailorman as a brutal cold-blooded killer. The film is described as a “raunchy and ...

So we’ve identified some films, novels and even memoirs and pop songs that are brand new to the public domain, as of the beginning of 2025, just begging to be bloodied up. Yes, including Popeye ...

director of Duke’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain, told NPR. “The spinach, if you want to be on the safe side, you might want to wait.” Popeye in his first appearance in 1929.

The strip was later renamed Popeye, and after Segar’s death, various writers and artists continued to work on it. Tintin is the second iconic character to enter the public domain in 2025.