Public Domain Day 2022
On January 1, 2022, copyrighted works from 1926 entered the US public domain, where they are free for all to copy, share, and build upon. The line-up this year is stunning. It includes books such as A. A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh, Felix Salten’s Bambi, Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, Langston Hughes’ The Weary Blues, and Dorothy Parker’s Enough Rope. There are scores of silent films—including titles featuring Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton, and Greta Garbo, famous Broadway songs, and well-known jazz standards. But that’s not all. In 2022 we got a bonus: an estimated 400,000 sound recordings from before 1923 entered the public domain too. This video celebrates some of this year’s highlights.
Sponsored by the Center for Study of the Public Domain.
The Center's Domain Day 2022 website: https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2022/