He loves the classic song "Yes We Have No Bananas," which entered the public domain on January 1, 2019. So he organized some friends at a New Year's party to sing it.

This means all books, films, songs and art published throughout the Roaring 20s are without copyright protection, making 2025 a significant year for the public domain.

January 1 marked not only the start of 2020, but also Public Domain Day, when the copyright on a trove of long-protected works of art created in 1924 finally expired. Now, a cache of 95-year-old ...

It's January, and for people in the US, that means the same thing it's meant every January since 2019: a new batch of previously copyrighted works have entered the public domain.

New Year's Day is often referred to as "Public Domain Day," as works of art published in the U.S. 95 years ago enter the public domain, a vault of ideas that no longer have intellectual property ...