{"id":5849,"date":"2019-01-01T03:00:39","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T08:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=5849"},"modified":"2018-12-31T09:42:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T14:42:07","slug":"happy-public-domain-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2019\/01\/01\/happy-public-domain-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Public Domain Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in 20 years, new works will enter the public domain in the United States. Copyrighted works entering the public domain were put on hold by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act\">Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998<\/a>, aka the the Mickey Mouse Protection Act, which extended the term of copyright from the life of the author\u00a0+ 50 years to life of the author\u00a0+ 70 years. When the term of copyright was 28 years with a 28 year renewal, 85% of copyrighted works were not renewed since the profit from the work wasn&#8217;t higher than the cost of renewal.<\/p>\n<p>One aspect of the copyright term extension is that we have lost 20 years worth of films, news reels and documentaries because many of them have simply rotted away as the copyright holders didn&#8217;t have a financial incentive to digitize them and archivists couldn&#8217;t do so while the works were under copyright.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Here are three useful articles:<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/arts-culture\/first-time-20-years-copyrighted-works-enter-public-domain-180971016\/?preview\">For the First Time in More Than 20 Years, Copyrighted Works Will Enter the Public Domain<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/12\/30\/680994544\/on-jan-1-books-movies-and-music-from-1923-enter-public-domain\">On Jan. 1, Books, Movies And Music From 1923 Enter Public Domain<\/a> (download the audio on the left sidebar)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/quartzy\/1511541\/the-works-entering-the-public-domain-on-jan-1-2019\/\">The Books, Songs, Films and Other Works Becoming Public Domain on Jan. 1, 2019<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While Mickey Mouse is still in Disney lockdown until 2024, here is a selection of what is entering the public domain. You can find a full list at<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/law.duke.edu\/cspd\/publicdomainday\/2019\/\">Duke Law School&#8217;s Center for the Study of the Public Domain<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kahil Gibran\u2019s The Prophet<\/li>\n<li>Virginia Woolf\u2019s Jacob\u2019s Room<\/li>\n<li>Agatha Christie\u2019s The Murder on the Links<\/li>\n<li>Cecil B. DeMille\u2019s The Ten Commandments<\/li>\n<li>Charlie Chaplin\u2019s The Pilgrim<\/li>\n<li>Rin Tin Tin\u2019s third film, Where the North Begins<\/li>\n<li>The Charleston<\/li>\n<li>No\u00ebl Coward\u2019s London Calling!<\/li>\n<li>George Gershwin\u2019s Stop Flirting<\/li>\n<li>Robert Frost\u2019s \u201cStopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening\u201d, indeed any poem in Robert Frost\u2019s Pulitzer Prize-winning compendium New Hampshire<\/li>\n<li>The Chip Woman\u2019s Fortune By Willis Richardson &#8211; The first drama by an African-American author produced on Broadway; a one-act story of a family in financial straits<\/li>\n<li>Zane Grey&#8217;s \u201cThe Vanishing American\u201d in Ladies\u2019 Home Journal &#8211;\u00a0One of the first literary critiques of the treatment of Native Americans; harsher than the later novel and silent film<\/li>\n<li>Jessie Conrad&#8217;s A Handbook of Cookery for a Small House &#8211;\u00a0A peek into the life of author Joseph Conrad via his wife\u2019s recipe collection<\/li>\n<li>Arthur Conan Doyle&#8217;s Our American Adventure<\/li>\n<li>The Real Story of a Bootlegger<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in 20 years, new works will enter the public domain in the United States. 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