Former House Speaker and self-proclaimed "Deadhead" Nancy Pelosi drew swift online backlash after appearing at a tribute honoring Grateful Dead co-founder Bob Weir, with some social media users ...

Legendary Los Angeles rock band Los Lobos is suing over allegedly unpaid royalties tied to soundtrack recordings for the 1987 Richie Valens biopic La Bamba and the 1995 Richard Rodriguez-directed film ...

Is this RPG designer fixated on writing roleplaying games about mid-20th century teenage amateur sleuths or do they just write a lot of tabletop RPGs? That's the main question I had when I saw that a ...

Nancy Drew has survived some scary situations. But the slender, attractive sleuth has just entered the most hair-raising of all: the public domain. On New Year’s Day, 95 years of copyright protection ...

On January 1, 2026, America's favorite teen detective officially escaped copyright protection. The first four Nancy Drew mysteries from 1930—The Secret of the Old Clock, The Hidden Staircase, The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The public domain shift means creators can now develop Nancy Drew content freely, from films and stage productions to graphic ...

Works from 1930 can now be used widely for free LMPC via Getty; Rachel Wisniewski/For the Washington Post Cartoons like Betty Boop, books like the Nancy Drew series, movies like All Quiet on the ...

The year 1930 brought about a slew of raunchy films, the debut of Betty Boop, and the first iteration of Disney’s most famous dog. The year 1930 brought about a slew of raunchy films, the debut of ...

LOS ANGELES — Betty Boop and “Blondie” are joining Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh in the public domain. The first appearances of the classic cartoon and comic characters are among the pieces of ...

Here’s a quick quiz about some cultural icons on the verge of experiencing a kind of rebirth: 1. What was the original storyline of the Dagwood and Blondie comics? 2. What was Blondie’s maiden name? 3 ...