Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you’ve ever wanted to use Betty Boop in a creative project but assumed copyright law made that impossible, that assumption is ...

Associated Press file photos / Betty Boop collapses on Broadway near 49th Street as handlers work to raise the deflated helium balloon during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York in 1986.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — 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 ...

If you’ve ever wanted to use Betty Boop in a creative project but assumed copyright law made that impossible, that assumption is officially outdated. On Thursday, January 1, 2026, Duke Law’s Center ...