Works entering the public domain in 2025 include the first appearances of Tintin and Popeye, films in which Mickey Mouse talks, and books by Hemingway, Faulkner, Virginia Woolf, and more.
And the fellow in the cartoon is right: It’s not just art that is having its joy and humanity sucked out. I don’t know if you have to be a writer/editor to find it obvious, but AI prose is so stilted ...