I am gradually catching up on my reading here, and I caught this interesting post from Jill Hurst-Wahl's Digitization 101 blog about works entering the public domain on January 1st, the day that copyright protection expires for, this year, works of authors who died in 1940, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Marcus Garvey, and Emma Goldman!
The post also points towards a tantalizing page from Duke's Center for the Study of Public Domain, showing what works would have passed into the public domain had Congress not extended copyright terms in the controversial 1978 Copyright Act, including Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (not this edition, but the original play), Horton Hears a Who!, and the movie On the Waterfront.
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Happy (Belated) Public Domain Day!
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