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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 ...
Robert A. Baron argues in his essay "Making the Public Domain Public" that "because the public domain is not a legally sanctioned entity," a statement disclaiming a copyright or "granting" a work into the public domain has no legal effect whatsoever, and that the owner still retains all rights to the work not otherwise released. The owner would ...
This category is for books that are in the public domain worldwide. Please only add categories for books published before the 19th century and articles directly related to the subject of public domain books to this category. Because the copyright status of books published since the 19th century varies by country, articles about books published ...
Until recently, public libraries could not digitize orphaned books without risking being fined up to $150,000 if the owner of the copyright were to come forward. [2] This problem was briefly addressed in the 2011 case Authors Guild, Inc. v. Google, but the settlement in that case was later overturned.
The earliest Betty Boop and Bimbo works will enter into the public domain, including Dizzy Dishes. The Disney character Pluto also makes his first appearance, first as an unnamed dog in The Chain Gang, and later called Rover in The Picnic, [a] along with Clarabelle Cow. Another Ub Iwerks cartoon creation, Flip the Frog, will also enter the ...
A public-domain book is a book with no copyright, a book that was created without a license, or a book where its copyrights expired [17] or have been forfeited. [ clarification needed ] [ 18 ] In most countries the term of protection of copyright expires on the first day of January, 70 years after the death of the latest living author.
Since the public domain began expanding annually again in 2019, the month of January has typically seen a large number of public domain works uploaded to sites such as Project Gutenberg, Standard Ebooks, and Wikimedia Commons. Standard Ebooks usually releases a number of notable newly-public domain books each January 1, and films in the public ...
Project Gutenberg Russia (Rutenberg) aims to collect public domain books in Slavic languages, particularly in Russian. The discussion of the project and its legal side began in April 2012. The word Rutenberg is a combination of words "Russia" and "Gutenberg".