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 ...

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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 ...

Scroll through the latest work, then click through to the global Creative Works site and see what stands out. For project information, creative credits, and more, click on the project to expand to ...

Last September, I was moderating an event at Star’s office in Silicon Valley, and one of the speakers cracked a joke about AI being like teenage sex—everyone’s talking about it, but nobody knows how ...