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There are multiple licenses which aim to release works into the public domain. In 2000 the WTFPL was released as a public domain like software license. [59] Creative Commons (created in 2002 by Lawrence Lessig, Hal Abelson, and Eric Eldred) has introduced several public-domain-like licenses, called Creative Commons licenses. These give authors ...
Public-domain books within the United States include a number of popular titles, ... If the work was created before 1978 but first published 1978–2002, the federal ...
Recordings which entered the public domain prior to 1 January 2013 are not retroactively covered. 50 years from end of calendar year when the broadcast was first made (broadcasts) [ 238 ] : s. 14
Any photographs created before January 1, 1955, are thus in the public domain in Australia. The same also holds true for other works, which were protected 50 years p.m.a. before January 1, 2005: any work published before 2005 of an author who died before January 1, 1955 is in the public domain in Australia.
Recordings fixed between 1923 and February 14, 1972, will be phased into the public domain in the following decades. [52] [53] Specifically, works fixed 1923–1946 are public after 100 years and works fixed 1947–1956 after 110 years of fixation. Works fixed 1 January 1957 – 14 February 1972 will all become public on 15 February 2067. [48]
Some works created by the government or in other countries are also in the public domain. Some works are not sufficiently original to be eligible for copyright protection. Sometimes people wish for a piece of their own work to be freely available to everyone to use with no strings attached, and put the work in the public domain.
John Steinbeck’s first novel, “A Cup of Gold,” from 1929, will also enter the public domain. The British novelist Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own,” an extended essay that would become a landmark in feminism from the modernist literary luminary, is also on the list. Her novel “Mrs. Dalloway” is already in the U.S. public ...
The expansion of the public domain in books broke the dominance of the London booksellers and allowed for competition, with the number of London booksellers and publishers rising nearly threefold, from 111 to 308, between 1772 and 1802. [28]