“‘Limitless’ Copyright Case Faces High Court Review” (Feb. 20) reported that the plaintiffs in the case of Eldred vs. Ashcroft hope to roll back the current ...

Every year, the world celebrates the first of January as Public Domain Day, marking the release of copyrighted works into the public domain. In 2024, we saw popular intellectual properties enter the ...

Novels by Ernest Hemingway, left, William Faulkner and John Steinbeck figure prominently in this year's trove of newly copyright-free literary works. (Associated Press) Last year, it was Mickey Mouse.

The first of January ushers in a new year, a new month and new entries to the list of works in the public domain. While 2024 saw many popular intellectual properties lose copyright protection — ...

But if copyright holders do pursue another extension, they may find that the road is more difficult than it was in 1998, because the Internet has changed the economics of the public domain. Back in ...

Dan O’Neill was 53 years ahead of his time. In 1971, he launched a countercultural attack on Mickey Mouse. In his underground comic book, “Air Pirates Funnies,” the lovable mouse was seen smuggling ...

For quite some time, copyright laws have shielded many iconic and well-known characters. However, since 2019, some of those existing copyrights have been expiring, meaning that those characters ...

New Year’s party hat and noisemaker sales recently got a boost because January 1, 2019 was also Public Domain Day. And for those that celebrate this occasion, 2019 is an especially notable year.

In this series, we discuss some of the fundamental concepts of intellectual property law as they relate specifically to video game companies and other unique players in the space, including esports ...

Sarah Hook does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

On January 1, 2019, the New Year will ring in untold numbers of additions to the public domain in the U.S., including hundreds and maybe thousands of works with at least a small public reputation.

January 1 marked not only the start of 2020, but also Public Domain Day, when the copyright on a trove of long-protected works of art created in 1924 finally expired. Now, a cache of 95-year-old ...