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  2. Public domain in the United States - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Public domain - Wikipedia

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    There are multiple licenses which aim to release works into the public domain. In 2000 the WTFPL was released as a public domain like software license. [58] Creative Commons (created in 2002 by Lawrence Lessig, Hal Abelson, and Eric Eldred) has introduced several public-domain-like licenses, called Creative Commons licenses. These give authors ...

  4. History of copyright - Wikipedia

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    The ruling in Donaldson v Beckett confirmed that a large number of works and books first published in Britain were in the public domain, either because the copyright term granted by statute had expired or because they were first published before the Statute of Anne was enacted in 1710.

  5. Copyright law of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Under the Act, the first sound recordings to enter the public domain were those fixed before 1923, which entered the public domain on January 1, 2022. Recordings fixed between 1923 and February 14, 1972, will be phased into the public domain in the following decades.

  6. These works enter the public domain in 2025 - AOL

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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 ...

  7. Copyright Act of 1790 - Wikipedia

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    Both houses of Congress pursued a copyright law more pointedly during 1790's second session. They responded to President George Washington's first 1790 State of the Union Address, [10] [11] in which he urged Congress to pass legislation designed for "the promotion of Science and Literature" so as to better educate the public.

  8. List of copyright duration by country - Wikipedia

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    The Norwegian copyright law defines two basic rights for authors: economic rights and moral rights. [..] For material that is outside the scope of copyright, the phrase «i det fri» («in the free») is used. This corresponds roughly to the term «public domain» in English. Norwegian copyright law makes a distinction between copyright and ...

  9. Mickey Mouse enters the public domain, but with many legal ...

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    Ninety-six years after their first big-screen appearance, two of the most iconic and recognizable characters in the world are sailing straight into the public domain. It marks the first time the ...