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Jan 4, 2024 · An influx of well-known, public domain properties offers independent creators more freedom to adapt a wide range of classic content while helping brands support new talent and storytellers in adapting historic IPs.
There is no official list of films (or other works) in the public domain. It is difficult to determine the public domain status of a film because it can incorporate any or all of the following copyrightable elements: Cinematography; Drama; Literature; Music; Art; Graphical characters (e.g., Bugs Bunny) Fictional characters (e.g., James Bond)
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Following is a list of public domain works with multimedia adaptations. This lists includes works for which installments exist in multiple forms of media, such as books, comic books, films, television series, and video games.
Subject (creator)Original Literary WorkComic BooksAnimated FilmsAlice in Wonderland ( Lewis Carroll)Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) ...several, most famously the 1951 Disney ...Anne Shirley ( Lucy Maud Montgomery)Anne of Green Gables ' (1908) Anne of ...nonoAllan Quatermain ( H. Rider Haggard)King Solomon's Mines (1885) numerous ...Classics Illustrated #97 Allan and the ...yesBarsoom [2] ( Edgar Rice Burroughs)Under the Moons of Mars (1912 serial); A ...noMost screenwriters can’t afford to buy the rights to the latest hit book or graphic novel—so they must turn to the Public Domain. The concept of pre-established content recognition in the public eye offers studio executives, marketing executives, and corporate shareholders a piece of mind.
- To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
- Time Regained by Marcel Proust
- The Jazz Singer
- Metropolis
- The Tower Treasure by Franklin W. Dixon
- Wings
- Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
- The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Woolf is perhaps most famous for Mrs. Dalloway, published in 1925 and already in the public domain. But by the following year, as she was revising To the Lighthouse, she already believed that it was “easily the best of my books”—“freer and subtler” than Mrs. Dalloway, and “occupied with more interesting things,” as she wrote in a diary entry on Nov...
In Search of Lost Time, a French novel divided into seven parts, is widely considered one of the greatest books of all time. It’s also widely viewed as a prohibitively challenging read. Proust’s frenetic, sprawling sentences can be hundreds of words long, but admirers of his work say the length is part of the point. As novelist André Aciman wrote i...
One of the most seminal pictures in film history, The Jazz Singer marked the end of the silent film era and the rise of the “talkies.” Directed by Alan Crosland, it’s the first feature-length film with synchronized dialogue, and it features six songs performed by its star, Al Jolson. It is, fittingly, a story about the push-pull between tradition a...
Helmed by German director Fritz Lang, Metropolis is a silent film examining the tensions between a city’s workers and its wealthy upper class. It is perhaps most famous for its innovative production design and special effects: Since its debut, a number of science fiction films that followed—including Blade Runner (1982)—were heavily inspired by the...
Since their introduction, teenage sleuths Frank and Joe Hardy have appeared in dozens of stories, TV shows and video games. But the Hardy Boys franchise traces its origins back to the first book in the series, published in 1927: The Tower Treasure. The books were attributed to Franklin W. Dixon, but they were actually written by a team of ghostwrit...
The silent film, directed by William A. Wellman, follows two fighter pilots who serve in World War I and fight over a woman named Sylvia Lewis. It’s famous for its pioneering action cinematography—particularly a long dolly shot through a crowd that inspired a scene in Star Wars: The Last Jedi—and for winning the very first Academy Award for best pi...
Hesse’s autobiographical novel, written in German, follows Harry Haller, an intelligent, despairing man who compares the worst parts of himself to a “wolf of the steppes.” Grappling with existential misery and despising the conventions of bourgeois society, he struggles to forge human connections or find respite from his suffering without compromis...
Doyle first put the master of deductive reasoning into the world with the novel A Study in Scarletin 1887. After that, the Holmes canon would grow to include three more novels, as well as 56 short stories. In recent decades, the mysteries have collectively spawned more than 250 screen adaptations—not to mention countless print retellings—that play ...
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Dec 27, 2022 · What enters the public domain next year? With new music, art, novels, and films making the cut, here are the highlights from 1927 that will be free to use and appropriate thanks to legal rules.
Feb 12, 2024 · By Eric Halliday | Feb 12, 2024. Disney100 Mickey Mouse statue at Epcot. Image courtesy Rob Schwarz Jr. / 5 of 6. 2028. While not the most interesting year in terms of famous characters, it's a...
