Here are the significant books, films and characters joining the list of works in the public domain on Jan. 1, 2026.

A children's book that serves as an apt metaphor for the progress of the public domain—a small, overworked, and underestimated locomotive straining to make its way up a mountain—is among the works ...

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“Art for me brings about a sense of peacefulness,” Sonavane tells YourStory. He graduated from the renowned JJ School of Arts ...

A view of "Umbrella" (2021) by painter Amoako Boafo, who signed a recent statement opposing the use of art to train AI models (photo by Arturo Holmes/Getty Images) Over 25,000 artists and cultural ...

As the creator economy expands and production becomes more distributed, a new category of technology is beginning to emerge: ...