ITN is next turning the cartoon classic "Betty Boop" into a slasher with Betty's Revenge with V/H/S star Hannah Fierman in ...

Brand awareness tops B2B marketers’ resolutions, Warner Bros. urges a no to Paramount, partisan news channels grew in 2025.

Are cinema-goers ready for a bloodthirsty Betty Boop? The question will be answered later this year when the Jazz Age cartoon ...

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

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

And a bunch of interesting stuff became street legal this year, including some absolute banger songs from the Dirty '30s. "I Got Rhythm" and "Embraceable You" by the Gershwin Brothers have now been ...

If you’ve ever wanted to use Betty Boop in a creative project but assumed copyright law made that impossible, that assumption is officially outdated. On Thursday, January 1, 2026, Duke Law’s Center ...

FILE - Betty Boop collapses on Broadway near 49th Street as handlers work to raise the deflated helium balloon during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York. FILE - Irving Berlin, at the piano ...

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 ...

We've been getting more Mickey Mouse, Popeye and Winnie the Pooh comic books now that the characters have entered the public domain, where it comes to copyright, if not trademark. And still a little ...