Public domain, where art lives after copyright 06:53 For nearly four decades, United Airlines licensed George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" to be its musical identity.

Public domain, where art lives after copyright 06:53. The first of January ushers in a new year, a new month and new entries to the list of works in the public domain.

Earlier this week, Disney’s film Steamboat Willie entered the US public domain after nearly a century — and so did its star Mickey Mouse. It was a turning point for one of the 20th century’s ...

That depiction of Mickey is now copyright-free; the ur-Mickey depicted in the Walt Disney short “Steamboat Willie” entered the public domain on Jan. 1, 2024, but later depictions such as the ...

This year, artworks from 1925 enter the public domain, including Arthur Dove’s The Intellectual, Tina Modotti’s Telephone Wires, and Joan Miró’s The Birth of the World (all in the ...

January 1 marked Public Domain Day in the United States in which the copyright on thousands of works of art and sounds had expired, allowing them to move into the public property for free use.