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Sound recordings made before 1923 entered the public domain on 1 January 2022; recordings made between 1923 and 1946 will be protected for 100 years after publication; recordings made between 1947 and 1956 will be protected for 110 years; and all recordings made from 1957 to 15 February 1972 will have their protection terminate on 15 February 2067.
On January 1, 2022, all sound recordings published before 1923 entered the public domain – the first sound recordings to involuntarily lose copyright protection in US history. (Creators have always been free to surrender copyright protection and deed their sound recordings into the public domain, as Tom Lehrer would do later in 2022 after ...
Recordings that were first published between 1947 and 1956 are protected for a period of 110 years after first publication. Recordings that were published after 1956 and first fixed prior to February 15, 1972 will enter the public domain on February 15, 2067. Note that sound recordings that were first fixed prior to February 15, 1972 are a ...
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 ...
Under the Act, the first sound recordings to enter the public domain were those fixed before 1923, which entered the public domain on January 1, 2022. Recordings fixed between 1923 and February 14, 1972, will be phased into the public domain in the following decades.
All recordings published before 1923 entered the public domain on January 1, 2022. Recordings published 1923–1946 have 100-year copyright terms, and those published 1947–1956 have 110-year terms. [a] Recordings will enter the public domain every January 1 from 2024 to 2047 and from 2058 to 2067. [9] [b] All other recordings created before ...
If no notice of copyright was affixed to a work and the work was "published" in a legal sense, the 1909 Act provided no copyright protection and the work became part of the public domain. In the report submitted by the House Committee on Patents, they designed the copyright law "not primarily for the benefit of the author, but primarily for the ...
Hence the public domain in books whose privilege had expired was expressly recognised. [36] After the French Revolution a dispute over Comédie-Française being granted the exclusive right to the public performance of all dramatic works erupted and in 1791 the National Assembly abolished the privilege.