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Piet Mondrian found fame, fortune and glory with his grid-like paintings lit with basic colours. But did many of his ideas come from Marlow Moss? Our writer celebrates an extraordinary British talent ...

Piet Mondrian, “Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow” (1930) (image via Wikimedia Commons; all images public domain) January 1 might ring in a new year, but it's also a day when copyright ...

A new year means a new parade of classic characters and works entering the public domain. Under U.S. law, the copyright on thousands of creations from 1930 — including films, books, musical ...