The original version of Betty Boop has entered the public domain. The cartoon character appeared in her original iteration in ...

Betty Boop is one of the most iconic cartoons of the 20th century. A pinup drawn to look like a 1920s flapper, the character ...

Nine new Mickey Mouse cartoons also are becoming public domain, two years after Steamboat Willie made the first version of ...

Get ready for more Betty Boop, Pluto the Dog and Nancy Drew. Thousands of copyrighted works dating back to 1930 officially ...

If you’re looking for songs, books, or movies with content you want to use, you are probably examining which of your ...

You may have heard familiar names like Betty Boop, Nancy Drew, and Mickey Mouse's dog Pluto have all entered what's called ...

Joining the public domain is the character we now know as Pluto, though in 1930, he was just a nameless bloodhound in The ...

It’s a big year,” said Jennifer Jenkins, law professor and director of Duke’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain.

Among those things being put into the public domain is the iconic official Georgia state song, “Georgia on My Mind.” The song ...

Created by animator Grim Natwick, and voiced (mostly) by Mae Questel, Betty was the queen of the New York cartoon studio run by Max and Dave Fleischer — Walt Disney's only serious rival in the 1930s.

Who’s Betty Boop? Beyond the iconography you might have seen on a lunchbox or keychain, what do you really know? You can recognize her curls, her red flapper dress, and her pursed lips, plus maybe the ...

LOS ANGELES — Betty Boop and “Blondie” are joining Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh in the public domain.