The public domain is an immensely valuable concept. Imagine a vast well of human knowledge and creativity for anyone to draw from, remix, and reuse. How disappointing, then, that the most loudly ...

National Correspondent, "CBS News Sunday Morning" Lee Cowan is an Emmy-award-winning journalist serving as a national correspondent and substitute anchor for "CBS News Sunday Morning." For nearly four ...

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 — ...

Are these heads creepy? Yes. Are they copyright violations? As of 2024, probably not. Credit: Daniel Knighton via Getty Images Jan. 1, 2024 is Public Domain Day in the United States — the day a bunch ...

Every new year a crop of books, music and films become part of the public domain in the U.S. Jennifer Jenkins of Duke University shares a few of the works from 1927 coming our way. On Sunday, a new ...

Jan. 1 is Public Domain Day, meaning artworks from 1929 (or 1924 in the case of sound recordings) are now free for all creators to use and abuse to their hearts' content. The works of art, music, ...

You can add “medieval black comedy” to Netflix’s expanding list of programming they hope will make a splashy hit; The Decameron is set to be a rude, soapy, and satirical look at sex, class, and power ...

The character of Buck Rogers, a man from the present who travels to the far future, first appeared in the novel Armageddon 2419 A.D. by Phillip Nowlan, published in 1928 in the anthology magazine ...

This article will tell you about the top 10 best public-domain music sites. Music is an essential element we add to videos and social media posts and listen to for leisure or educational purposes. But ...