1930) Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Medhurst's preference is for ... The colour purple has also become a powerful symbol. Members of the Lavender Menace , a lesbian activist group from New York ...

Syria's finance minister said Sunday Damascus would hike salaries for many public sector employees by 400% next month ... However, the new government was promised assistance from regional and Arab ...

It’s become an annual ritual: Every Jan. 1, more classic works of art or characters enter the public domain, and exploitation filmmakers with a tiny budget and a big taste for grisliness are ...

A new year brings lots of new things — including a new batch of entries into the public domain. 2025’s list includes everything from cartoon classic Popeye to works from Ernest Hemingway and Agatha ...

Popeye the Sailor is strong to the finish ’cause he eats his spinach and now he’s entered the public domain alongside thousands of other copyrighted works. This means the character is free to copy, ...

In 1787, the founding fathers agreed that copyrights should only last for a limited amount of time in order to “promote the progress of science and useful arts.” Over two centuries later, that ...

The title track from the hit play and movie entered the public domain Wednesday alongside a bevy of other songs, characters and literature first published in the mid-1920s. This year, Virginia ...

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 ...

It's January, and for people in the US, that means the same thing it's meant every January since 2019: a new batch of previously copyrighted works have entered the public domain. People can ...

Other 1929 songs now in the public domain include Fats Waller, Harry Brooks, and Andy Paul Razaf’s “Ain’t Misbehavin'” and “(What Did I Do To Be So) Black And Blue,” as well as George ...