Every year, copyright expires on intellectual property, releasing more into the public domain where anyone can use it. As ...

Nine Mickey Mouse cartoons, the Marx Brothers' film "Animal Crackers," and books by William Faulkner and Agatha Christie are ...

While you are switching calendars from 2025 to 2026, why not switch up your wardrobe as well? We spotted the new, dated 2026 merchandise collection on a recent visit to the Disneyland Resort, which in ...

This year, the earliest versions of Betty Boop, Blondie, nine Mickey Mouse cartoons, and the first week of the Mickey Mouse ...

LOS ANGELES — Betty Boop and “Blondie” are joining Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh in the public domain.

The original version of an iconic Disney character has entered the public domain. The Center of the Study of the Public ...

If you’ve kept up with the news or even just walked around your local Walmart in 2025, then you already know Stitch has been ...

It’s a big year,” said Jennifer Jenkins of Duke’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain. “It's just the sheer familiarity ...

You know I’m a company mouse. And I know you invested one billion smackers in the wonderful OpenAI and are going to put ...

Welcome to FTW Explains, a guide to catching up on and better understanding stuff going on in the world. Have you seen some stuff about a version of Mickey Mouse and how Disney's copyright on it is ...

On Oct. 14, 2023, Mouse Trap News published an article claiming that Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse were getting divorced. CNN previously reported that Walt Disney had decided the two Disney characters ...

The public will be able to copy and reproduce thousands of copyrighted works from 1930 in the new year, including flirtatious ...