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 ...

3D rendered classic sculpture Metaverse avatar with network of low-poly glowing purple lines. Machine learning and artificial intelligence concept. Animated 3D NFT artwork example. Web 3.0 technology ...

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 ...

People tend to want the creative content they consume—be it music, visual art, or literature—to be the work of a human rather than a machine. At least that’s what we say. New research, however, by ...

Innovation flourishes not because people collaborate more broadly but because the right people fall into productive orbit with one another. Every great creative movement—whether in art, science, ...