A year after Winnie-the-Pooh entered the public domain — and a year before the sure-to-be-contentious expiration of the Mickey and Minnie Mouse copyright in 2024 — Arthur Conan Doyle’s famed detective ...

What do the worlds of Marvel, DC, Avatar, and Dune all have in common? They’re all intellectual property, or IP. With legal roots dating back to the Constitution, one way to protect IP is copyright, ...

A Sherlock Holmes collection, the first film to win the Oscars’ top prize and a classic ditty by Irving Berlin are among the thousands of books, films and musical compositions entering the US public ...

Several 1927 literary and cinematic works entered the public domain in 2023, including Arthur Conan Doyle’s final works featuring Sherlock Holmes. Each of these works were originally copyrighted for ...

2023 is finally here and with the new year comes a number of changes in the pop culture landscape, perhaps the most exciting of which are updates to the United States public domain. Each year, new ...

Fritz Lang’s trailblazing sci-fi epic Metropolis, the final Sherlock Holmes stories (and the detective character himself), and musical compositions like “Puttin’ on the Ritz” and “My Blue Heaven” are ...