From Henri Matisse to Frida Kahlo, 2025 is getting some amazing public domain content

On January 1, 2025, a new batch of decades-old art, literature, and film will be made available to artists and businesses for the first time. That’s because, at the start of each new year, a new crop of works enters the public domain, meaning that it is no longer copyright-protected. In the U.S., property that will become eligible for use in 2024 includes works by people who died in 1954 for countries with a copyright term of “life plus 70 years” (like the U.K. and South America);...