From exotica to indie rock to deep house, there are neatly 2,000 “sub-collections” of music with hundreds of tracks each. (And if you’re looking for true public domain music, the Internet Archive’s ...

In 2025, a mountain of work dated to between 1924 to 1929 will enter the US public domain, including some well-known and beloved songs that are still regularly performed today. Thousands of ...

Here’s how it works. In 2025, a mountain of work dated to between 1924 to 1929 will enter the US public domain, including some well-known and beloved songs that are still regularly performed today.

Last year, the original version of Mickey Mouse went into the public domain. That doesn’t mean that anyone can use Mickey ...

Famously, the original Steamboat Willie version of Mickey Mouse entered the public domain last year, and people everywhere ...

There’s also some complexity when it comes to music. Sound recordings from 1924 are now in the public domain, while 1929 marks the new public domain window for musical compositions. George Gershwin’s ...

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

director of Duke’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain. “There are masterpieces from Faulkner and Hemingway, the first sound films from Alfred Hitchcock, Cecil B. DeMille, and John Ford, and ...

The two classic comic characters who first appeared in 1929 are among the intellectual properties becoming public domain in the United ... and amazing music from Fats Waller, Cole Porter, and ...