A new animated series starring animator Max Fleischer’s iconic cartoon character Betty Boop is in the works, slated for release in 2018. Aimed at tweens and teens, the series recounts the daily ...

Works released in 1930 hit the U.S. public domain on January 1, including early animation icons, forgotten favorites, and the art form's formative experiments.

Today, the character enters the public domain—but perhaps only as a dog. The bizarre saga illustrates what's wrong with ...

Every year, classic characters enter the public domain. That means you're free to do as you like with those particular ...

A major copyright shift just made Betty Boop’s earliest version free to use — but merch sellers should read the fine print.

The classic cartoon Popeye is getting the big screen animated feature film treatment with Sony Pictures bringing the sailorman to theaters sometime in 2016, but it looks like he's not the only retro ...

Whenever moviegoers of the 1930s heard that phrase, the image of a cute, curvaceous flapper with short skirt and low-cut blouse quickly came to mind. She was Betty Boop, the sexiest cartoon character ...

Pluto is a cartoon dog character created by Walt Disney Productions, debuting anonymously as a bloodhound in the 1930 short ...

Betty Boop is returning to the big screen, with Simon Cowell’s Syco Entertainment and Animal Logic Entertainment developing and producing the first feature-length film for the feisty cartoon flapper.

"The Little Engine That Could," a Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel collaboration, and many other works are now free to use and ...

A tattoo artist has created an incredible moving image of a scene from a Betty Boop cartoon, using 76 inkings. Phil Berge, based in Montreal, Canada, painstakingly tattooed a cartoon figure on various ...