{"id":2220085,"date":"2026-01-02T17:09:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T17:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2220085"},"modified":"2026-01-02T17:09:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T17:09:54","slug":"betty-boop-and-blondie-enter-public-domain-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/betty-boop-and-blondie-enter-public-domain-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Betty Boop and \u2018Blondie\u2019 Enter Public Domain in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Betty Boop<\/a> and Blondie<\/a> are joining Mickey Mouse<\/a> and Winnie the Pooh<\/a> in the public domain.<\/p>\n

The first appearances of the classic cartoon and comic characters are among the pieces of intellectual property whose 95-year U.S. copyright maximum has been reached, putting them in the public domain on Jan. 1. That means creators can use and repurpose them without permission or payment.<\/p>\n

The 2026 batch of newly public artistic creations doesn\u2019t quite have the sparkle of the recent first entries into the public domain of Mickey or Winnie. But ever since 2019 \u2014 the end of a 20-year IP drought brought on by congressional copyright extensions \u2014 every annual crop has been a bounty for advocates of more work belonging to the public.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a big year,\u201d said Jennifer Jenkins<\/a>, law professor and director of Duke\u2019s Center for the Study of the Public Domain, for whom New Year\u2019s Day is celebrated as Public Domain Day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 intellectual property whose 95-year U.S. copyright maximum has been reached, putting them in the public domain on Jan. 1. That means creators can use […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2220086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2220085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Betty-Boop-and-\u2018Blondie-Enter-Public-Domain-in-2026.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2220085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2220087,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220085\/revisions\/2220087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2220086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2220085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2220085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2220085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}