The beginning of the year is a great time for the public domain, since it sees thousands of copyrighted works released from the intellectual monopoly that prevents their free creative use. Which works enter the public domain depends on the details of local copyright law, which varies around the world. But there’s a liberation that…
From a Cole Porter classic and novels by Virginia Woolf and DH Lawrence to a film of Buster Keaton’s, many significant works are entering the public domain in 2024.