Public Domain Characters 2025 List. Public domain on january 1, 2025, allowing free use without copyright permissions or payments. 1, 2025, all the books, films, songs, and art published in the 1920s or earlier are now public domain.

2025 has also seen dozens of books become property of the. 1, 2025, several iconic books and characters are now freely available for public use, from ernest hemingway’s “a farewell to arms” to the original popeye.