Hacker News with Generative AI: Public Domain

Misty: A secure distributed actor language (mistysystem.com)
Public Domain 2025 Douglas Crockford
Celebrating the timeless allure of Tintin's aesthetics (collegetowns.substack.com)
The Adventures of Tintin was a Belgian comic by the artist Hergé that ran from 1929 until 1976. As the first publication, Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, is now over 95 years old, the character has entered the public domain in the US as of Jan. 1, 2025.
An introduction to Plato's Republic (1981) (archive.org)
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Popeye is now Public Domain (theverge.com)
It’s a new year, and that means more works are headed to the public domain. This year, thousands of copyrighted works created in 1929, including the earliest versions of Popeye and the Belgian comic book character Tintin, are now free to reuse and repurpose in the US.
Standard Ebooks Public Domain Day 2025 in Literature (standardebooks.org)
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Welcome to the Public Domain in 2025 (archive.org)
On January 1, 2025, we celebrate published works from 1929 and published sound recordings from 1924 entering the public domain! The passage of these works into the public domain celebrates our shared cultural heritage. The ability to breathe new life into long forgotten works, remix the most popular and enduring works of the time, and to better circulate the oddities we find in thrift stores, attics, and on random pockets of the internet are now freely available for us all.
Public Domain Day 2025 (law.duke.edu)
On January 1, 2025, thousands of copyrighted works from 1929 will enter the US public domain, along with sound recordings from 1924. They will be free for all to copy, share, and build upon.
Standard Ebooks: Browse U.S. public domain artwork (standardebooks.org)
You can help Standard Ebooks by submitting new public domain artwork to add to this catalog for use in future ebooks. For free access to the submission form, contact the Editor-in-Chief.
January 1, 2025 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1929 are open to all (law.duke.edu)
On January 1, 2025, thousands of copyrighted works from 1929 will enter the US public domain, along with sound recordings from 1924.
Popeye and Tintin enter the public domain in 2025 along with Faulkner, Hemingway (apnews.com)
Popeye can punch without permission and Tintin can roam freely starting in 2025. The two classic comic characters who first appeared in 1929 are among the intellectual properties becoming public domain in the United States on Jan. 1.
ExFAT patents set to expire in early 2027; filesystem to become public domain (patents.google.com)
An extensible file system format for portable storage media is provided.
What will enter the public domain in 2025? (publicdomainreview.org)
At the start of each year, on January 1st, a new crop of works enter the public domain and become free to enjoy, share, and reuse for any purpose.
Anton Seder's the Animal in Decorative Art (1896) (publicdomainreview.org)
One can’t quite call Anton Seder’s prints naturalistic in Das Thier in der Dekorativen Kunst.
Patent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public (cloudflare.com)
Sable, the patent troll that sued Cloudflare back in March 2021 asserting around 100 claims across four patents, in the end wound up paying Cloudflare.
Antiquities of Mexico (1831–48) (publicdomainreview.org)
If you love something set it free – AKWF Waveforms now in public domain (2015) (adventurekid.se)
Public Work: a search engine for public domain images (public.work)
Johannes Hartlieb's Book of Herbs (1462) (publicdomainreview.org)
Major cartoon characters entering the public domain between 2024 and 2034 (diversetechgeek.com)
The Gilded Gallows of Georg Honauer (1597) (publicdomainreview.org)
Tom Seidmann-Freud's Book of Hare Stories (1924) (publicdomainreview.org)