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With every new year comes a slew of artistic works entering the public domain

A helium-filled Popeye balloon participates in the 33rd Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York in 1959, three decades after his comic strip debut.
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A helium-filled Popeye balloon participates in the 33rd Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York in 1959, three decades after his comic strip debut.

Some of the properties headed into the public domain on Jan. 1 include the first Marx Brothers' film, William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury" and the first appearances of Popeye the Sailor Man.

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