An updated design featuring Mickey Mouse and his friends has been featured on several new merchandise items in Walt Disney ...

This year saw one of the most zealously-guarded corporate empires of intellectual property spring a leak, as all the Magic ...

There are a dozen new Mickey cartoons - he speaks for the first time and dons the ... and the strip would be renamed "Popeye.

The sailor and boy detective can be reproduced without permission from 2025, but some details, like Tintin’s red hair, are still copyrighted.

Popeye first appeared in the comic strip “Thimble Theater,” and it’s only that version that will be public domain – not the cartoons, and not any references to spinach giving him super-strength. A ...

William Faulkner’s 1929 novel, “The Sound and the Fury,” along with Ernest Hemingway’s “A Farewell to Arms,” will also enter ...