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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 ...
Sound recordings from 1924 are entering the public domain thanks to the 2018 Music Modernization Act. They include Gershwin's recording of "Rhapsody in Blue" and Al Jolson's recording of ...
Unpublished works whose authors died in 1954 entered the public domain in 2025.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
The most common way for a work to enter the public domain is for its copyright term to expire—this is the case for musical compositions published prior to 1 January 1930. [4] Sound recordings, on the other hand, were generally protected until at least 2022. [ 4 ]
One of the most notable works to enter the public domain in the United States in 2022 was Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne. [2] All sheet music published in 1926 entered the public domain. [3] Under the Music Modernization Act, tens of thousands of sound recordings that were published before 1923 entered the public domain on 1 January 2022.
Related: Mickey Mouse horror movie trailer drops after character enters public domain. The Center for the Study of Public Domain at Duke University Law School lists the artworks entering the ...
Unpublished works by authors who died in 1949 entered the public domain on 1 January 2020. [3] Any published literary, artistic, dramatic, or musical work (other than computer programs) by a not generally known author (anonymous or pseudonymous) from 1949 also entered the public domain on that date.
Then began a parade of characters and stories, led by Winnie the Pooh and Mickey Mouse with many more to follow, marching into the public domain, where anyone can do anything with anything and ...