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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 ...
In 2025, the works unbound from copyright cap off the 1920s with literature, characters and more from 1929 entering the public domain.
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.
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]
Unpublished works whose authors died in 1954 entered the public domain in 2025.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
Here are the dates of 2025 federal holidays, according to the Office of Personnel Management: Wednesday, Jan. 1: New Year’s Day Monday, Jan. 20: Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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 ...
From Veterans Day to Christmas, here are the dates of the 2024 federal holidays. New Year’s Day: Monday, January 1 Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Monday, January 15