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Works from 1925 are now open to all! The Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke Law School's blog covers the famous works which rise to the public domain on January 1st, 2021.
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. Dalloway, Ernest Hemingway’s In Our Time, and Franz Kafka’s The Trial (in the original German), silent films featuring Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton, and music ranging from the jazz standard Sweet Georgia Brown to songs by Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, W.C. Handy, and Fats Waller.
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessley into the past."
F. Scott Fitsgerald, The Great GatsbyThis is not just the famous last line from The Great Gatsby. It also encapsulates what the public domain is all about. A culture is a continuing conversation between present and past. On Public Domain Day, we all have a “green light,” in keeping with the Gatsby theme, to use one more year of that rich cultural past, without permission or fee.
1925 was a good year for music. Duke Ellington and Jelly Roll Morton were some of those active then. Though some consider it the best year so far for great books and many classics were published then, among them is the original German version of the all too relevant The Trial by Franz Kafka.
Previously:
(2020) Internet Archive Files Answer and Affirmative Defenses to Publisher Copyright Infringement Lawsuit
(2020) Internet Archive Ends “Emergency Library” Early to Appease Publishers
(2020) Project Gutenberg Public Domain Library Blocked in Italy for Copyright Infringement
(2020) ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’ Turns 120
(2020) University Libraries Offer Online "Lending" of Scanned In-Copyright Books
(2019) The House Votes in Favor of Disastrous Copyright Bill
(Score: 1) by barbara hudson on Sunday January 03 2021, @03:07AM (5 children)
News flash, American laws only apply to Americans. Which only amounts to less than 5% of the world.
And increasingly America is like an unhappy incel - going it's own way.
And given that America is going to lose its status as the largest economy later this decade, maybe by the middle of the decade there will be even more incentive to ignore US policies.
Surprise, surprise, when you have as long a history of not playing nice as the USA, it should be no surprise people don't want to deal with you except on their terms.
And other countries may decide to retaliate for past injustice by invalidating US patents and copyrights. Let them develop their own products in competition.
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(Score: 2) by Arik on Sunday January 03 2021, @03:10AM (1 child)
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Sunday January 03 2021, @03:53AM
However, those terms never applied to software. That also never applied anywhere else in the world.
So if we can't go back to the 14 year term yet, we have to look at the current reality. You insist on using American law. I ignore American law because I'm not American. Like 95%+ of the world, and most Americans.
So what's your point whining that your law doesn't apply to anywhere else in the world?
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(Score: 2) by Pino P on Monday January 04 2021, @12:56AM (2 children)
Even with less than 5 percent of the world's population, I haven't find a larger single-language media market allowing political satire than the USA.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Monday January 04 2021, @02:14AM (1 child)
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(Score: 2) by Pino P on Tuesday January 05 2021, @04:20AM
English is indeed an official language of India, spoken by 129 million Indians as of the 2011 census. That's maybe two Britains and smaller than the anglophone population in the USA. Thus India's population alone doesn't necessarily make it wise for a business to pursue a strategy of forgoing revenue from the United States in favor of revenue from India.