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The first of January ushers in a new year, a new month and new entries to the list of works in the public domain. While 2024 saw many popular intellectual properties lose copyright protection ...
In 2025, the works unbound from copyright cap off the 1920s with literature, characters and more from 1929 entering the public domain.
On January 1, 2025, a new edition of Public Domain Day took place, bringing in a fresh bunch of free-to-use works that, despite being perhaps less eye-catching and impressive than last year's intake, still provide our community with a lot of opportunities to enrich the ever-growing open access catalogue.
John Steinbeck’s first novel, “A Cup of Gold,” from 1929, will also enter the public domain. The British novelist Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own,” an extended essay that would become a landmark in feminism from the modernist literary luminary, is also on the list. Her novel “Mrs. Dalloway” is already in the U.S. public ...
Unpublished works whose authors died in 1954 entered the public domain in 2025. The Broadway Melody, MGM's first musical film and the winner of the second Academy Award for Best Picture, entered the public domain in 2025. Among the films that entered public domain in 2025 are the following: The Cocoanuts, the first film of the Marx Brothers
Since the public domain began expanding annually again in 2019, the month of January has typically seen a large number of public domain works uploaded to sites such as Project Gutenberg, Standard Ebooks, and Wikimedia Commons. Standard Ebooks usually releases a number of notable newly-public domain books each January 1, and films in the public ...
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Public Domain Day celebration in Poland (2008) Public Domain Day 2020 celebration in Indonesia. There is no explicit time when Public Domain Day began being observed (it was mentioned by Lawrence Lessig in 2004 [3]), but in recent years it has been mentioned by Project Gutenberg [12] and has been promoted by Creative Commons. [13]