Jennifer Jenkins, Director of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain and clinical professor of law at Duke Law School ...

With their 95-year copyrights finished, iconic characters, films and musicians from the Jazz Age can be used without ...

The original Betty Boop, the first four Nancy Drew books and Greta Garbo's first talkie are among the many works from 1930 ...

It’s a new year, and you know what that means: a whole new collection of characters and stories are entering the public ...

There are several properties becoming public domain when 2026 begins, including four seminal mystery novels from 1930.

Cathleen O'Connell didn't need a flashlight or an amateur sleuth to grasp what it meant when the Trump administration pulled her funding for a film about fictional crime-solver Nancy Drew. Her project ...

Fun and clean! Ted, a.k.a. Ned, is very funny to watch. Nancy is great at manipulating him to do what she wants. My class loves this series.

Shaun Cassidy, Pamela Sue Martin and Parker Stevenson were the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew of the 1970s. So, how have Nancy Drew’s cinematic incarnations (and the actresses involved) fared over the ...

With a Nancy Drew movie due out this summer, the teen sleuth is set to become more popular than ever. That increased attention could be good news for Her Interactive, who just revealed the first ...

A new year means a new parade of classic characters and works entering the public domain. Under U.S. law, the copyright on thousands of creations from 1930 — including films, books, musical ...