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Open field agency: public domain and public art strategy report for the Danks Street south precinct
The opportunity to engage artists in a collaborative team was an important strategy to ensure the public domain design for the Danks ... was completed in May 2022. The site wide, integrated approach ...
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A local brewery used art from Philly museums on its cans. They didn’t ask permission and don’t want forgiveness.
The public domain is material — from fine art to books and songs — whose copyright has expired ... and a QR code that leads to a website with more information. The cans also feature a call-out for art ...
Hyperallergic4mon
Find Awe and Inspiration in Thousands of Public Domain Artworks
Get the latest art news, reviews and opinions from Hyperallergic. “Around this time last year I had the idea to gather all the images in the Public Domain ... that the new website creates ...
MusicRadar4mon
“The lyrics and music to Tiptoe Through the Tulips will be free for anyone to copy, perform, record, adapt, or interpolate into their own song”: The classic songs that are ...
Yet the freedom to re-imagine classic works of art and beloved IP can often misfire "When works go into the public domain, they can legally be shared ... My career has included editing MusicTech ...
USA Today4mon
What becomes public domain in 2025? Popeye, 'A Farewell to Arms' among the most famous
A new year means a new start, and for some pieces of media, it means entering the public domain. In 2024, one of the most famous additions to the public domain was the first iteration of Mickey ...
The Art Newspaper4mon
As Frida Kahlo works enter the public domain, look out for the fridge magnets
Each year on 1 January thousands of US copyrights expire, allowing creative works to be shared in the the public domain (copyrights on works—published books, films, songs and art—typically ...
Ars Technica4mon
It’s January, which means another batch of copyrighted work is now public domain
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 ...
The Verge5mon
Popeye and Tintin are now in the public domain
Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. 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 ...
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These works newly enter the public domain now that 2025 has officially begun
List of popular intellectual property entering the public domain in 2025 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 ...
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Popeye Enters the Public Domain (and More Mickey Mouse, Too)
Other notable Disney works in the public domain in 2025 are Disney’s first “Silly Symphony” short, titled “The Skeleton Dance,” directed by Walt Disney and animated by Ub Iwerks.
Rolling Stone5mon
Popeye, ‘The Skeleton Dance,’ and ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ Enter the Public Domain
documents each year’s Public Domain Day highlights on the center’s website. “For copyrighted culture, the public domain arrives only after a long wait,” Jenkins wrote of the 2025 entrants.