Here are the significant books, films and characters joining the list of works in the public domain on Jan. 1, 2026.

Georges Seurat's "Seascape (Gravelines)" (1890) is among the works in the Public Domain Review's new Public Domain Image Archive (via National Gallery of Art) Determining what materials are considered ...

January 1: day of hangovers, gym subscription sign-ups, and a fresh batch of artworks being freed from the nearly century-long grip of copyright law. In the U.S., New Year’s Day is also Public Domain ...

What do "I Got Rhythm," "The Maltese Falcon," and "The Little Engine That Could" have in common? They all went into the public domain this year ...

Celebrate the public domain with the University Libraries during the week of March 10! Works from Frida Kahlo, the Marx Brothers, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, and more all entered the public ...

Jan. 1 is Public Domain Day, meaning artworks from 1929 (or 1924 in the case of sound recordings) are now free for all creators to use and abuse to their hearts' content. The works of art, music, ...

An ongoing dispute with digital cultural heritage is whether high-resolution images of artworks in the public domain have a copyright when the photograph itself is new or improved. As Ben Sutton ...

Every year a new set of works enters the public domain and becomes free for people to creatively reuse, depending on the copyright laws of your area. The Public Domain Review, a nonprofit online ...

The Marx Brothers’ first movie, the early iterations of the comic strip character Popeye, and Ernest Hemingway’s “A Farewell To Arms” are all entering the public domain on Jan. 1, 2025. That means ...

If you are looking for some art—and I'm talking fine Art, with a capital "A"—The Metropolitan Museum is the spot to find it. And not only can you visit the museum when you are in New York (to look at ...