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.

And the Disney icon's public domain presence expands. “It’s a trove! There are a dozen new Mickey cartoons — he speaks for the first time and dons the familiar white gloves,” said Jennifer ...

On January 1, three early Mickey Mouse cartoons entered the public domain in the US, and AI experimenters have wasted no time taking advantage of it. On Monday, a digital humanities researcher ...

In essence, Mickey Mouse does indeed enter public domain Monday, but only the specific depiction character from the "Steamboat Willie" cartoon. Aaron Moss, a Los Angeles-based attorney specialized ...

Each year on January 1, all 95-year-old copyrights expire and a multitude of works enter the public domain, opening them up for free adaptation and interpretation. It’s important to note that ...

It was one of the cartoons to use synchronized sound ... and Mickey Mouse is now officially in the public domain. This means that now anyone in the U.S. can use the Steamboat Willie version ...