Popeye joining Mickey Mouse in the public domain, along with the first appearance of Mickey's signature white gloves.

It’s a new year, and that means more works are headed to the public domain. This year, thousands of copyrighted works created in 1929, including the earliest versions of Popeye and the Belgian comic ...

Works from 1929 and sound recordings from 1924 are now open to all in the U.S. This means all books, films, songs and art published throughout the Roaring 20s are without copyright protection, making ...

Times Insider editors scour the newspaper for the most interesting facts to appear in articles. This year, tidbits about ...