Celebrate the New Year with a happy Public Domain Day!

Happy New Year, everyone!  Welcome aboard, 2025! And what better way to celebrate the new year then to recognize a whole slew of cultural objects just entered the public domain?  Yes, books, movies, and more from 1929 (and audio recordings from 1924) just left copyright as of this very day, according to United States law.  Other titles enter public domain from different years, depending on national laws (see below). So today is officially Public Domain Day. Here are some examples of what’s now in the PD, assembled by, described by, and quoted from Duke University’s Center for the Study of the... [Read more...]