Public Domain 2025 List Of Names. Pdm 1.0 public domain creative commons is the nonprofit behind the open licenses and other legal tools that allow creators to share their work. The following lists list creators whose works entered the public domain in 2025 under the most common copyright regimes.

January 1 is public domain day and 2025 includes the releasing of work by some modern artists, like matisse and frida kahlo, into the public domain. In 2024, one of the most famous additions to the public domain was the first iteration of mickey mouse, which lost copyright protection.