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A New Treasure Trove: 2021 and the Public Domain | Central Rappahannock Regional Library
January 8, 2021 - 2021 will also see films released in 1925 become public domain. These are all silent films—and a major part of Hollywood’s technical and artistic evolution. Sadly, many of these films are now considered lost and can never be seen by current ...
overview of public domain-related events during the year of 2021
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2 weeks ago - Under the Copyright Term Extension Act, books published in 1925, films released in 1925, and other works published in 1925, entered the public domain in 2021.
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Public Domain Day 2021 | Duke University School of Law
On January 1, 2021, copyrighted works from 1925 will enter the US public domain,1 where they will be free for all to use and build upon. These works include books such as F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs.
It's Public Domain Day 2021 in the US. What newly out of copyright film from 1925 will you watch or adapt this year?
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Four of the six remaining Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle enter the public domain in 2022. Given the number of tv shows and movies based on Sherlock Holmes, I wouldn't be surprised if some tv or movie writer somewhere already has notes for a script or two. More on forums.spacebattles.com
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Is There something great enter the public domain in 2021?
It depends on what part of the world you live in but for nations that live with the 70 yr rule (which is most) you have a ton of good ones coming into the PD George Orwell Olaf Stapledon are the two that I'm most looking forward to. Cannot wait to see people being able to use, adapt and retell or create new stories in their universe.
Plus the Great Gatsby is public domain Jan 2021 even in the US. Pretty much everything published (barring a few exceptions) in 1925 will be public domain including a ton of films, comics etc. It'd be a really long list but for me the two I mentioned above are really exciting.
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These Incredible Works of Literature, Film, and Music Entered the Public Domain in 2021
January 17, 2021 - Legendary works of music, literature, and film entered the public domain this year, including "The Great Gatsby" and many more!
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The Best Books, Movies, and Songs Now in the Public Domain - Nerdist
January 5, 2021 - (There are all sorts of caveats of what enters the public domain and when you can learn more about here). This year’s class is highlighted by F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel The Great Gatsby. But he’s far from the only notable writer in the group, which also includes books from Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Franz Kafka, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis, Agatha Christie, Aldous Huxley, and more. There are also memorable movies Harold Lloyd (The Freshman) and Buster Keaton (Go West).
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Public Domain Day Celebrates Creative Works from 1928 - SPARC
January 29, 2024 - “There’s so much to rediscover and to celebrate,” said Jennifer Jenkins, director of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke Law School. For example, the release of The Great Gatsby into the public domain in 2021 inspired a creative flurry — new versions of the novel from the perspective of different characters, a prequel telling the backstory of Nick Caraway, a young adult remix, and song.
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Public Domain Day 2021 Pre-1976 | Duke University School of Law
January 1, 2021 - (Google Books has brought us closer ... not the whole book.) Instead of seeing these literary works enter the public domain in 2021, we will have to wait until 2060. Here are a few of the movies from 1964 that would have become available this year....
Enoch Pratt Free Library
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Finding Movies in the Public Domain - Enoch Pratt Free Library
July 1, 2025 - To help people understand the general principles of why a film enters the public domain, Festival Films has put together a helpful copyright guide. There are hundreds of movies and cartoons as well as dozens of television shows that are now in the public domain, which means that they may be ...
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May 15, 2017 - Mon May 15, 2017 2:41 am I've just been reading a fascinating book over at http://www.jstor.org (you can register free to read up to 3 books every fortnight and there is a wealth of movie literature there.) The book is Forgotten Faces: Why Some of Our Cinema Heritage Is Part of the Public Domain by David Pierce and explains in great detail just how movies like Topper Returns, Night of the Living Dead and Charade managed to fall out of copyright.
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Free to Use and Reuse: Public Domain Films from the National Film Registry | Library of Congress Free to Use and Reuse | Library of Congress
The National Film Registry selects 25 films each year to showcase the range and diversity of American film heritage. These public domain selections are part of an online collection.
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It's Public Domain Day 2021 in the US. What newly out of ...
January 1, 2021 -
Newly in the public domain films this year include Harold Lloyd's The Freshman, Buster Keaton's Go West, the 1925 Stella Dallas, with Belle Bennett, Ronald Colman and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Erich von Stroheim's The Merry Widow. More details here:
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Festival Films library of hundreds of films and 1950's TV shows that are in the public domain, available on Mpeg digital or DVD-R for Internet streaming, TV broadcast and movie theaters.
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(Films released in 1925 will enter the public domain in 2021, while films released in 1926 will enter the public domain in 2022, and so on.) Some films, like Charade from 1963, entered the public domain upon release due to the failure of the ...
Ohio State University Libraries
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Popular Adaptations of Public Domain Works | Copyright Corner
January 1, 2023 - Some other notable adaptations of Romeo and Juliet include: West Side Story (1957, 1961, and 2021) Gnomeo and Juliet (2011) The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride (1998) Other popular movies adapted from Shakespeare’s plays include 10 Things I Hate About You (1999; Taming of the Shrew), She’s ...
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November 21, 2025 - Harold L. Drimmer Library Research Guides: Copyright: Films in Public Domain from the National Registry (Library of Congress)
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Film list: Public Domain
November 4, 2022 - Upgrade to a Letterboxd Pro account to add your favorite services to this list—including any service and country pair listed on JustWatch—and to enable one-click filtering by all your favorites. ... A list of every public domain and open source film (in the US) by average rating (except for Steamboat Willie to emphasize that Mickey Mouse is finally ours).
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Public Domain Day 2021 | SpaceBattles
July 22, 2018 - I wouldn't be surprised if we see multiple new Gatsby film adaptions over the next couple of years now that Hollywood doesn't need to get permission from the Fitzgerald estate. Next year's cohort from 1926 will also bring a number of prominent works into the public domain, most notably the original Winnie the Pooh as well as the first published novels by Hemingway and Faulkner.
Wikipedia
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List of films in the public domain in the United States - Wikipedia
3 days ago - This date will move forward one year, every year, meaning that films released in 1931 will enter the public domain in 2027, films from 1932 in 2028, and so on, concluding with films from 1977 entering the public domain in 2073.