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What Winnie-the-Pooh Lapsing into the Public Domain Really Means

Plagiarism Today

On January 1, 2022, works that were first published in the year 1926 lapsed into the public domain. Winnie-the-Pooh is likely the most culturally relevant character to enter the public domain since 2019, when works started entering the public domain again in the United States due to the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.

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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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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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Just Because It’s On the Internet Doesn’t Mean It’s In the Public Domain

JD Supra Law

Just Because it’s Published Doesn’t Mean it’s in the Public Domain - Some people think that if something is on the Internet, it’s in the public domain and is fair game to be copied. Giving the public access to an article, photo, music, video, or other art doesn’t put it in the public domain.

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When Collective Works Are Made From the Public Domain

Dear Rich IP Blog

Speaking of the public domain, the Public Domain Review has an informative essay (“ The Mark of the Beast ”) about the first anti-vaxxers Dear Rich: I wish to reproduce photographs from a website. If the photos are in the public domain and the website hasn’t substantially modified them, you are free to copy them.

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Civil War Letters Still Copyrighted?

Dear Rich IP Blog

The question is, when were they first published? I have two cases where they were published in book form in the 1990s, but those letters were copied from university libraries where apparently the originals are on display. According to your book, "publication" includes "offering for public display."

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3 Count: Sealed with a Kiss

Plagiarism Today

First off today, Andrew Albanese at Publishers Weekly Reports that a collection of publishers and authors have secured a default judgement against a piracy service named KISS Library, this one awarding them $7.8 Copyright Law, works lapse into the public domain on January First of the year their copyright expires.