Public Domain Day 2030. Public domain officially welcomes the comic debuts of popeye and buck rogers, alongside classic works by faulkner, hemingway, and landmark sound films. On public domain day, a work’s copyright expires and the work enters the public domain, at which point it can be copied, remixed, incorporated into new works, and generally used for.
On january 1, 2025, thousands of copyrighted works from 1929 will enter the us public domain, along with sound recordings from 1924. On this site you can read about the legal changes that have eroded the public domain and find legal updates, including summaries of the recent cases that brought happy birthday, we shall overcome, and sherlock holmes into the public domain.