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.
Dale Cummings (Cartoon Movement) fears the burdens put on the press, and I would assume he’s talking about Canada’s major papers, which suffer from too few owners and cuts and layoffs as we’ve seen ...
Richard D. Parsons, one of the leading corporate executives and crisis managers of his generation, who as chairman of Time Warner and Citigroup became a steadying pilot for media and financial ...
The copyrights of thousands of 20th-century films, books, compositions and sound recordings expire on Jan. 1, making them free for anyone to share and adapt. Here are some of the highlights.
Among those: an anime cartoon he used to watch with his dad ... And the dude is like, ‘So you’re scared?’ And he says, ‘I’m not scared. I’m excited.’ That’s kind of the mentality I have right now.” ...
In a recent vintage photo of downtown Mount Vernon in the early 1950s, we saw the sign (if not the actual building) for a Sinclair gas station. This image from around the same time shows the Sinclair ...
Eva Walker is a long-time KEXP DJ and one half of The Black Tones. In 2024, she had her baby girl, Hendrix. Every month, she bundles the wisdom from her experiences (and mistakes) into a writes a ...
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.