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Public Domain Day 2023 is Coming: Here’s What to Know

Copyright Lately

A new crop of copyrighted works (including rights in a certain famous British detective) will enter the public domain in the United States on January 1, 2023. public domain on January 1, 2023. Happy Public Domain Day 2023. On January 1, 2023, Frank and Joe Hardy will be in good company.

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Public Domain Day 2024 is Coming: Here’s What to Know

Copyright Lately

Oh Mickey, you’re so fine—but you’re not alone: An avalanche of copyrighted works will enter the public domain in the United States on January 1, 2024. public domain on January 1, 2024—and that’s a shame. public domain for failure to comply with the various formalities (e.g., copyright terms.

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Is Mickey Mouse in the Public Domain?

The IPKat

On 1st January every year we celebrate the array of works entering the public domain, as their copyright term expires. This year, entering the public domain [generally speaking] are copyright protected works created by people who died in 1953, for countries with a copyright term of life plus 70 years (e.g.,

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Happy Public Domain Day 2023

JD Supra Law

Each January 1 is Public Domain Day, which marks the entry of a fresh batch of copyrighted creative works into the United States public domain.

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Mickey Mouse to Enter Public Domain in 2024

IPilogue

Every year on January 1, works protected under copyright law enter into the public domain due to their copyright protection expiring. This extension is why Mickey Mouse’s copyright protection is set to expire at the end of 2023. As a general rule in the U.S.,

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1927 Enters the Public Domain

Indiana Intellectual Property Law

However, January 1 st of each year marks the expiration of another year of historical copyrights, and 2023 ushered works from the year 1927 into the public domain , making them eligible for extensive use without pe rmission or royalties.

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[Video] Impact of Mickey Mouse on public domain. The latest artificial intelligience and intelluctual property cases - Thaler lost again. Nirvana Nevermind baby gets day in court. Tolkien estate and more.

JD Supra Law

Music lawyer Tamera Bennett and TV lawyer Gordon Firemark discuss: The impact of Mickey Mouse (or some versions) going public domain on January 1, 2024. 27, 2023); and the No AI Fraud ACT bill is introduced in the House. Microsoft Corp., 1:23-cv-11195 (S.D.N.Y.