These characters are now available

[TheWritingGroup]

At least in the USA, as of 1 January 2025, you can use these characters and stories in your erotica. They are in the public domain.

Characters

• Mickey Mouse, now in his white-gloves-and-talking version.
• Popeye the Sailor Man, but maybe don't use the spinach trick just yet.
• Tintin, original version.
• Buck Rogers (but not specific movie versions)

Stories

• Farewell to Arms, Hemingway
• The Seven Dials, Christie
• The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner
• The Maltese Falcon, Hammett

Films

• On with the Show
• Gold Diggers of Broadway

I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice. Disney, I mean any copyright holder, can sue you even if they're legally in the wrong. Wear a condom while writing.

Source: https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2025/

-Annie

 

[Rob_Royale]

• Gold Diggers of Broadway

This one already sounds like an erotic story.

 

[PennyThompson]

**Urge to write legal Public Domain Tintin twink erotica intensifies**

 

[ShinyCrazyDi]

I love that they've included the rocket & that Nestor (the butler) is watching from the window

 

[Orcwords]

What I think is funny is that while the original "Buck" Rogers story entered the public domain last year, we didn't get the "Buck" until this year when the first year of the comic entered the public domain.