As we ring in 2020, a new batch of books, sheet music, art and films have entered the public domain. Hundreds of copyright protections for artists who died in 1924 are now free to use or repurpose in ...

On Monday’s The Late Late Show With James Corden, Jennifer Hudson stopped by to give a modern twist on public domain songs. The Late Late Show must have been running low on their music licensing ...

BYU students gathered at the Varsity Theatre to choose from 1927 public domain works to create their own adaptations in the Public Domain Film and Music Festival on Jan. 20. The students chose their ...

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Links to Apple Music tracks are gradually migrating to a Music domain, lending more weight to the theory that iTunes will gradually be put to pasture. First spotted by developer Craig Hockenberry, at ...

The producer Ray Angry and the visual artist Katherine McMahon lead a project that reimagines songs freely available for public use for the current moment. By Olivia Horn One Saturday in April, at a ...

James Boyle and Jennifer Jenkins of Duke's Center for the Study of the Public Domain talk with NPR's Leila Fadel about the movies, music and books from 1923 entering the public domain on Jan. 1. For ...

The music publisher points out some key flaws in a lawsuit that looks to establish that "Happy Birthday" belongs to all. By Eriq Gardner Former Legal Editor-at-Large With the English language’s most ...