Every January 1 in the Books department, we like to make an extra toast for a concurrent holiday: Public Domain Day.

The biggest Michelangelo exhibition in over a century is planned in Denmark thanks to the use of high-tech 3D replicas.

It's the day the nonagenarian cartoon characters officially enter the U.S. public domain along with a treasure ... from artists to high school orchestra directors. Jenkins says she gets "adorable ...

For a struggling filmmaker running low on ideas, public domain is all we have for adapting books. —Lee Isaac Chung, director (Minari) FREE FOR ALL E.C. Segar's Popeye the Sailor Man and Hergé’s Tintin ...

and Richard Hughes' first novel A High Wind in Jamaica. "But if you felt like singing like Tiny Tim for some reason, and you could, you can record your own version of Tiptoe Through the Tulips next ...

The two classic comic characters who first appeared in 1929 are among the intellectual properties becoming public domain in the United States on January 1. That means they can be used and ...