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[87] Subject to that observation, such recordings will fall into the public domain: for sound recordings created before 1965, 50 years after fixation, but if the sound recording is published before the copyright expires, 50 years after its publication (but only where copyright expires before 2015). [48]
In the European Union and Canada, sound recordings were copyrighted for 50 years until 2013. On 1 January 2013, the Beatles' single "Love Me Do" entered the public domain. [7] As of November 2013, European sound recordings are now protected for 70 years, which is not retroactive. [8] In 2015, Canada changed the copyright length to 70 years. [9]
The Norwegian copyright act does not address public domain directly. 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.
The law was not made retroactive which means that any author who entered the public domain stays in the public domain. Authors who died in 1972 will not become public domain until 2043. [ 24 ] Except if the work is a cinematographic work in which case it's 70 years from the year in which the work is made.
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Unpublished works whose authors died in 1954 entered the public domain in 2025.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