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fromFortune
4 days ago
Intellectual property law

Betty Boop and Blondie join Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh in the public domain | Fortune

fromFortune
4 days ago
Intellectual property law

Betty Boop and Blondie join Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh in the public domain | Fortune

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fromOpen Culture
6 days ago

What's Entering the Public Domain in 2026: Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, All Quiet on the Western Front, Betty Boop & More

Numerous 1930 works and characters—including Rover (early Pluto), Betty Boop, novels, films, and songs—entered the public domain this year.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
5 days ago

Celebrate Public Domain Day with Betty Boop and Piet Mondrian

Numerous works published in 1930 entered the US public domain, including Betty Boop's debut, Piet Mondrian's Composition, Faulkner's novel, and The Little Engine That Could.
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fromwww.npr.org
1 week ago

The cultural works becoming public domain in 2026, from Betty Boop to Nancy Drew

Thousands of works published in 1930 will enter the U.S. public domain on Jan. 1, 2026, becoming free to use, share, and adapt.
fromTechCrunch
3 weeks ago

WikiFlix shows us what Netflix would have been like 100 years ago | TechCrunch

A project of Wikipedia's volunteer community, WikiFlix hosts over four thousand movies from Wikimedia Commons, the Internet Archive, or YouTube that have fallen into the public domain - that means they are free to share and distribute, usually because the copyright lapsed, or there was never any copyright at all. So, yes, most of the movies on the WikiFlix homepage are your grandma's age, but isn't it kind of fun to imagine what Netflix would've been like back in the day?
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fromGameSpot
3 months ago

This Creepy Slasher Movie Inspired By An Iconic Disney Character Is Coming To 4K Blu-Ray

A public-domain Steamboat Willie inspired an animated horror-comedy slasher, Screamboat, now receiving a Blu-ray/4K release with minor bonus material.
Books
fromFast Company
4 months ago

From Kindle to Kobo and beyond, this free ebook depot will blow your mind

Standard Ebooks provides over 1,000 free, professionally formatted public-domain ebooks with high design, compatibility, and a superior reading experience across devices.
Artificial intelligence
fromFuturism
5 months ago

New Video-Generating AI Trained 100 Percent on Public Domain Films

Moonvalley's AI video technology is trained entirely on public domain films, addressing ethical concerns in video generation.
Independent films
fromwww.theguardian.com
6 months ago

I Heart Willie review public-domain slasher turns Mickey Mouse into slicer-and-dicer

Public domain horror movies transform beloved characters into gory slasher film icons.
'I Heart Willie' stands out in the subgenre for its unique Michoacan setting.
Artificial intelligence
fromBoston.com
6 months ago

AI chatbots need more books to learn from. These libraries are opening their stacks.

Harvard University releases nearly one million public domain books to AI researchers, expanding AI's knowledge base with historical literature.
Independent films
fromenglish.elpais.com
7 months ago

The filming of Robin Williams' Popeye,' where cocaine was hidden in walkie-talkies: You couldn't escape it'

Popeye enters public domain, inspiring horror films but overshadowed by the legacy of the chaotic 1980 film starring Robin Williams.
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