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It’s a new year, and that means more works are headed to the public domain. This year, thousands of copyrighted works created ...

From "A Farewell to Arms" to the cartoon character Popeye the Sailor, thousands of artistic works will enter the public ...

Tintin, now in the Public Domain, gets a modern revival in The Big Lie, to be Kickstartered this year from Fabrice Sapolsky.

Popeye can punch without permission and Tintin can roam freely starting in 2025. The two classic comic characters who first ...

The copyrights of thousands of 20th-century films, books, compositions and sound recordings expire on Jan. 1, making them ...

Characters such as 'Popeye,' 'Buck Rogers,' and 'Tintin' are among the list of works falling into the public domain as of 2025. This as the copyright expires on works produced in 1929.

The original versions of Popeye and Tintin have now entered the public domain, leaving potential adaptation possibilities ...

Tintin was written by a fascist sympathizer and its early stories reflected Nazi occupation. We can't save it - but there's ...

This year's crop includes internationally recognized figures such as the comic character Tintin, who made his debut in a Belgian newspaper in 1929, and Popeye the Sailor, created by cartoonist ...

(and sound recordings from 1924) will enter into the public domain in the United States, and that includes a good portion of Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, a work of explicit and broad anti-Soviet ...