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

A new year means a new start, and for some pieces of media, it means entering the public domain. In 2024, one of the most famous additions to the public domain was the first iteration of Mickey ...

This 1929 short, Mickey Mouse’s ninth ... (Olive Oyl, incidentally, preceded Popeye into the public domain by 10 years. Popeye’s main adversary is still a few years away from being admitted ...

and Disney’s first Silly Symphony short, “The Skeleton Dance.” You can check out some more notable works that have officially entered the public domain, via Entertainment Weekly ...

Other notable Disney works in the public domain in 2025 are Disney’s first “Silly Symphony” short, titled “The Skeleton Dance,” directed by Walt Disney and animated by Ub Iwerks.

Hot Dogs!" This short also marks the appearance of his iconic white gloves. In addition to new characters entering the public domain, characters that have previously entered the public domain are ...

While not starring Mickey Mouse, there’s another Disney animated short that will soon enter the Public Domain in 2025 as well: The Skeleton Dance. This first installment in the Silly Symphony ...

This law prevented new works from entering the public domain for two decades ... On the Disney front, we get the Silly Symphony short The Skeleton Dance, as well as a dozen more Mickey Mouse ...

The first iteration of Popeye the Sailor, literary classics by Dashiell Hammett and William Faulkner, Alfred Hitchcock’s first sound film, and songs like “Singin’ in the Rain” and ...

With the beginning of 2025, paintings by the likes of Henri Matisse, Frida Kahlo, and André Derain are shedding their copyright protections and entering the public domain in the United States ...