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

Here, we take look at some of the most expensive paintings ever sold in art history. Find out which Andy Warhol painting ...

Traditionally, New Year’s Day has long been seen and celebrated as ‘Public Domain Day’. Accordingly, 1 January is highly ...

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Yoshio Taniguchi died this past month on December 16 after battling pneumonia. News of Taniguchi’s passing was confirmed by ...

Every year, several famous works of art enter the public domain, which essentially means, those things are no longer ...

Greek mythology has been reflected in paintings and hundreds of vivid works that have come to be considered masterpieces.

Some of the properties headed into the public domain on Jan. 1 include the first Marx Brothers' film, William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury" and the first appearances of Popeye the Sailor Man.

(and sound recordings from 1924) will enter into the public domain in the United States, and that includes a good portion of Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, a work of explicit and broad anti-Soviet ...

Claude Monet’s ‘Impression, Sunrise’ is one of the most famous and beautiful seascapes in art history. The painting shows the port of Le Havre, Monet’s hometown, covered in the soft ...

he turned the designer from the role of servant to the rich and famous, to someone his clients would look up to as the expert who told them what they should be wearing. Metropolitan Museum of Art ...

the director of Duke's Center for the Study of the Public Domain, which spends months poring over records to compile the most famous examples. Once in the public domain, these works become fodder for ...