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On January 1, 2022, all sound recordings published before 1923 entered the public domain – the first sound recordings to involuntarily lose copyright protection in US history. (Creators have always been free to surrender copyright protection and deed their sound recordings into the public domain, as Tom Lehrer would do later in 2022 after ...
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 ...
Images in this category are works of art published in the United States before 1930. If the person or organization who digitized it has released it under another license, list that other license as well as this one.
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 ...
As such, all films released before 1923 would have entered the public domain by January 1, 1998. Although the CTEA added 20 years to the terms of all existing copyrights until 2019, it explicitly refused to revive any copyrights that had expired prior to its passage.
If it was published before 1923 in the US, it is out of copyright (published means presented to the public and a distinct concept from creation). If it was published before 1989 in the US and no copyright notice was added, then it is likely in the public domain (artists who failed to give notice could have later rectified the problem through ...
Under modern copyright law of the United States, all works published before January 1, 1923, with a proper copyright notice entered the public domain in the United States no later than 75 years from the date of the copyright. Hence books published in 1922 or earlier entered the public domain in the United States in 1998.
{}: for works whose author died before 1954 or, if anonymous, that were published before 1954 (public domain prior to introduction of the new law in 2004). {{PD-South-Africa}}: For works published in South Africa that are more than 50 years old.