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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]
An English logo of the 2023/2024 Public Domain Day. Public Domain Day is an observance of when copyrighted works expire and works enter into the public domain. [74] This legal transition of copyright works into the public domain usually happens every year on 1 January based on the individual copyright laws of each country. [74] Visual created ...
In 2025, the works unbound from copyright cap off the 1920s with literature, characters and more from 1929 entering the public domain.
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 ...
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 ...
Los Angeles copyright attorney Aaron Moss observes in his own curtain-raising post about public domain day 2025 that several Popeye-inspired horror films, "including 'Popeye the Slayer Man,' set ...
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.
2024 in public domain, 2024 in American public domain, and Public Domain Day, for the on-wiki articles. Welcome to the Public Domain, Mickey Mouse! , a post on the official Wikimedia Foundation blog. January 1, 2024 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1928 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1923! , an article from the Center for the ...