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

If you’re looking for songs, books, or movies with content you want to use, you are probably examining which of your ...

The original Betty Boop, the first four Nancy Drew books and Greta Garbo's first talkie are among the many works from 1930 ...

From films featuring the Marx brothers and early Betty Boop, to a Faulkner classic, and "Body and Soul," these artistic works ...

Popeye and Tintin will soon be free to roam, punch, and investigate without a single copyright holder in sight. Starting Jan. 1, 2025, these iconic characters, along with literary heavyweights ...

It’s become an annual ritual: Every Jan. 1, more classic works of art or characters enter the public domain, and exploitation filmmakers with a tiny budget and a big taste for grisliness are scouring ...

Jan. 1 marks the dawn of a new era for Popeye and Tintin. It's the day the nonagenarian cartoon characters officially enter the U.S. public domain along with a treasure trove of other iconic works.

Betty Boop and “Blondie” are among the highlights of titles entering the public domain with the arrival of 2026 ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

Few tech products have been as broadly contentious as video-generating artificial intelligence. These complex algorithms, which cleave millions of datapoints together into seconds-long gobs of video, ...

Few tech products have been as broadly contentious as video-generating artificial intelligence. Tech billionaires tend to argue that this is simply the way things need to be — if you want AI, we need ...