At the start of each year, on January 1st, a new crop of works enter the public domain and become free to enjoy, share, and reuse for any purpose. Find here, in this advent-style calendar, our top pick of what lies in store for 2022.

2 weeks ago - Under the Music Modernization Act, tens of thousands of sound recordings that were published before 1923 entered the public domain on 1 January 2022.

Tweet By Jennifer Jenkins, Director of Duke’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain January 1, 2022, is Public Domain Day: Works from 1926 are open to all, as is a cornucopia of recorded music: an estimated 400,000 sound recordings from ...

May 22, 2023 - Anyone can use these works as raw material for their own creations, without fear of a lawsuit. What kinds of things will people do with public domain works?” · Now that it is 2022, many works are entering the public domain for the first time.

January 26, 2022 - Join us as we explore some of the most influential books now in the public domain that you can check out from CRRL’s collection. You may be surprised and fascinated by what you discover. ... Perhaps the most anticipated public domain title of this year is A.A. Milne’s beloved Winnie-the-Pooh, opens a new window. In 2022 in the U.S., both this book and its illustrations by E.H.

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December 31, 2021 - One of the blessings of what's been a rough couple of years is that Public Domain Day is now a routine cause for celebration in the United States. For 20 years up to 2019, very little entered the public domain due to a 20-year copyright extension enacted in 1998. But beginning in 2019, we started…

January 4, 2022 - Literary aficionados and copyright buffs alike have something to celebrate as we welcome 2022: A new batch of works published in 1926 entered the public domain on January 1st. In copyright, the public domain is the commons of material that is ...

Thanks to the Music Modernization Act of 2018, all sound recordings published before 1923 will enter the US public domain on January 1, 2022 (and each year between 2023 and 2046, recordings older than 100 years will continue to be added).

October 23, 2022 - On January 1, 2022, thousands of creative works published in 1926 entered the public domain following the expiration of the 95-year period of protections established by U.S. copyright law.

September 29, 2023 - On 20 January 2022, Creative Commons, the Internet Archive, and various other Open Movement leaders will honor the amazing works published in 1926 that will enter the public domain for the first time.

1 week ago - In 2022 in the United States, in addition to works published in 1926 that had had their copyright renewed, about 400,000 sound recordings from before 1923 also passed into the public domain under the CLASSICS Act.

January 19, 2022 - On January 1, 2022, books, poems, music, and films published in 1926 in the US entered the Public Domain. Why does that matter to you or anyone else? For one thing, it means that digital versions of those items published in 1926 or earlier can ...

January 21, 2022 - The Future of the Public Domain The American public domain is about to get very interesting over the next couple of years, as well as legally contentious. This year’s public domain additions saw …

January 3, 2022 - The deep­er we get into the 21st cen­tu­ry, the wider the vari­ety of media that falls into the pub­lic domain. Jenk­ins high­lights silent-film come­dies like For Heaven’s Sake with Harold Lloyd and Bat­tling But­ler with Buster Keaton, as well — the mid-1920s hav­ing seen the dawn of the “talkie” — as sound pic­tures like Don Juan, the “first fea­ture-length film to use the Vita­phone sound sys­tem.” Unlike in pre­vi­ous years, a large num­ber of not just musi­cal com­po­si­tions but actu­al sound record­ings will also come avail­able for free reuse.

On January 1, 2022, copyright expired for all works published in the United States in 1926. These works entered the public domain. Anyone is now free to share, use, and build on them in the US without permission or payment.

December 7, 2021 - Works will enter the public domain ... the Copyright Term Extension Act further provides that books published in 1926 will be entering the public domain in 2022 – an extended 96-year protection....

Not only will all pre-1923 sound recordings enter the US public domain in 2022, recordings from 1923 will enter in 2023, those from 1924 in 2024, and so on, up to and including 2046.

After 2046 we will need to wait 10 years for pre-1956 recordings to enter the public domain under current law. This is significant because until 2022, no sound recording has entered the public domain due to copyright expiration.

From a Blog Post by Jennifer Jenkins, Director, Duke Law School’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain: In January 1, 2022, copyrighted works from 1926 will enter the US public domain, where they will be free for all to copy, share, and ...