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.

Art World Iconic Works by Frida Kahlo, Henri Matisse, and More Join the Public Domain in 2025 Hemingway, Faulkner, and the Marx Brothers's 'The Cocoanuts' also entered the public domain. Frida Kahlo.

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.

The Marx Brothers’ first movie, the early iterations of the comic strip character Popeye, and Ernest Hemingway’s “A Farewell To Arms” are all entering the public domain on Jan. 1, 2025.