Happy Public Domain Day 2025! This year, we welcome the version of Popeye as the sailor who first appeared 17 January 1929 as a minor character in E.C. Segar’s Thimble Theatre comic strip.
In the United States, each 1 January, the literature, movies, music scores, and other protectable works released 95 years earlier enter the public domain. All materials with authorized U.S. publication dates before 1930 (and all pre-1925 sound recordings) are now in the U.S. public domain as of 1 January 2025.
For more details on what is new to the public domain this year, please visit:
- Duke Law School: https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2025/
- Copyright Lately: https://copyrightlately.com/public-domain-2025/
For more details on the public domain, please visit:
- NWC's Public Domain Guide: https://usnwc.libguides.com/copyright/publicdomain
Interested in informational copyright coaching? Please contact: copyright@usnwc.edu
E. C. Segar, Popeye (in "'Gobs' of Work" from the Thimble Theatre comic strip, 17 January 1929)
Contact: libref@usnwc.edu
NYCU: https://usnwc.libguides.com/blog/
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