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On this last day of the month, we celebrate the first day of January – the annual Public Domain Day. New Year’s Day - January 1, 2025 - marked the day when all movies, songs, books, and other works of art from 1929 entered the United States public domain, in addition to sound recordings from 1924. This means that all of these creative works from the 1920s can now be freely shared, copied, and reconstructed. Those wishing to share or built upon the materials can now do so without payment or needing to seek permission. Here are some of the works while entered the public domain for the first time this year:
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
The Cocoanuts – the first film starring the Marx Brothers
Hallelujah – directed by King Vidor, featuring one of the first all-Black casts in a major studio-produced film
The Skeleton Dance – produced and directed by Walt Disney
Singin’ In the Rain – lyrics by Arthur Freed, score by Nacio Herb Brown
Ain’t Misbehavin’ – lyrics by Andy Razaf, score by Thomas “Fats” Waller and Harry Brooks
Popeye the Sailor Man - by E. C. Segar, first appearance in “Gobs of Work” from the Thimble Theatre comic strip
Tintin – by Hergé (Georges Remi), first appearance in “Les Aventures de Tintin” from the magazine Le Petit Vingtième
Click here for a complete list of works that entered the public domain in the United States and around the globe this year.
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