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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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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, Putting Pants on Philip enters the public domain.

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Police Photo: Public Domain or Fair Use?

Dear Rich IP Blog

It was released to the press and has been published in many news outlets attributed to the department. Is it public domain or fair use? Public domain? Other states like Virginia, New York, and Massachusetts (called "open copyright" states) have a policy that makes state documents presumptively public domain.

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A Proposal to leverage Article 17 to build a public repository of Public Domain and openly licensed works

Kluwer Copyright Blog

We have recently published a white paper , authored by Julia Reda ( Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte ) and Paul Keller ( Open Future ) that proposes to build a public repository of Public Domain and openly licensed works. What could be potential uses of this database for the CC community that we haven’t thought of?

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My Concerns with the ‘Can’t Be Evil’ NFT Licenses

Plagiarism Today

Last month, a study published by The Galaxy examined the top 25 most valuable NFT projects and found that, despite many understanding that NFTs transferred either the copyright or the license in the original work, only 1 in 25 of those projects even attempted to do as such. Understanding the “Can’t Be Evil” Licenses.

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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.