Every new year comes new works slated to enter the public domain. In 2025, the most notable include Disney titles such as Silly Symphony short Bone Dance and Mickey Mouse shorts like “Karnival Kid,” the first to feature his voice. Any of those already sound like a horror movie—but please, no more scary cash grabs. At least give us an arthouse indie Bone Dance.
Some relief in the public domain exists Popeye again Tintin’s Houses early cartoons. Which means that since they can be changed and shared maybe we’ll see Genndy Tartakovsky moving forward. Popeye by using this potential opportunity. (Yes, there are already more Popeye fashion designers on the way.) Interestingly, in the realm of fear-related music, “Tiptoe Through the Tulips” would also be a community resource, potentially useful as a song. The hidden the idea of repentance.
Check out the full list below of works that are open to copy, review, and use in various ways without permission as shared by Duke Law.
Books and games
- William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
- Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
- Virginia Woolf, Single Room
- Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest again The Maltese Falcon (as serialized in The Black Mask magazine)[4]
- John Steinbeck, Gold Cup (Steinbeck’s first novel)
- Richard Hughes, High Spirit in Jamaica
- Oliver La Farge, The Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story
- Patrick Hamilton, A rope
- Arthur Wesley Wheen, first English translation of All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
- Agatha Christie, The mystery of the seven dials
- Robert Graves, Goodbye All That
- EB White and James Thurber, Is Sex Necessary? Or, Why You Feel The Way You Do
- Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (only the original German version, Briefe an einen jungen Dichter)
- Walter Lippmann, Moral Antecedents
- Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee), The Roman Hat Mystery
Letters
- EC Segar, Popeye (from “Gobs of Work” from the Thimble Theater comedy)
- Hergé (Georges Remi), Tintin (in “Les Aventures de Tintin” from the magazine Le Petit Vingtième)
Movies
- A dozen more Mickey Mouse animations (including the first appearance of Mickey speaking in Karnival’s child)
- Coconutsdirected by Robert Florey and Joseph Santley (the first Marx Brothers feature film)
- Broadway Melodydirected by Harry Beaumont (Academy Award winner for Best Picture)
- The 1929 Hollywood Revuedirected by Charles Reisner (with the song “Singin’ in the Rain”)
- Bone Dancedirected by Walt Disney and starring Ub Iwerks (originally Silly Symphony short from Disney)
- Blackmaildirected by Alfred Hitchcock (Hitchcock’s first sound film)
- Hallelujahdirected by King Vidor (one of the first major-channel films with an African-American cast)
- Wild Partydirected by Dorothy Arzner (Clara Bow’s original “talk”)
- Welcome Dangerdirected by Clyde Bruckman and Malcolm St. Clair (first full-length comedy starring Harold Lloyd)
- Go On with the Showdirected by Alan Crosland (first full-length, full-color, feature-length film)
- Pandora’s box (Die Büchse der Pandora), directed by GW Pabst
- Show Boatdirected by Harry A. Pollard (novel and musical adaptation)
- The Black Watchdirected by John Ford (Ford’s first sound film)
- Despite Marriagedirected by Edward Sedgwick and Buster Keaton (Keaton’s last silent feature)
- Say it in Songsdirected by Lloyd Bacon (follow Jazz singer again The Singing Fool)
- Dynamitedirected by Cecil B. DeMille (DeMille’s first sound film)
- Gold Diggers of Broadwaydirected by Roy Del Ruth
Music Songs
- Singin’ In The Rainlyrics by Arthur Freed, music by Nacio Herb Brown
- Ain’t Misbehavin’lyrics by Andy Paul Razaf, music by Thomas W. (“Fat”) Waller & Harry Brooks (from the musical Hot Chocolates)
- An American in ParisGeorge Gershwin
- The BoléroMaurice Ravel
- (Make Me So) Black and Bluelyrics by Andy Paul Razaf, music by Thomas W. “Fats” Waller and Harry Brooks (a song about racial injustice in music Hot Chocolates)
- Tiptoe through Tulipslyrics by Alfred Dubin, music by Joseph Burke
- Happy Days Are Here Againlyrics by Jack Yellen, music by Milton Ager (Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1932 presidential campaign theme song)
- What Is This Thing Called Love?by Cole Porter (from Porter’s music Wake up and dream)
- Am I Blue?lyrics by Grant Clarke, music by Harry Akst
- It was meant for Melyrics by Arthur Freed, music by Nacio Herb Brown
- Honeylyrics and music by Seymour Simons, Haven Gillespie, and Richard A. Whiting
- Waiting for the Trainlyrics and music by Jimmie Rodgers
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