IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

You may have heard that on January 1, 2022, Winnie-the-Pooh and the other characters from the Hundred Acre Wood are now in the public domain. Milne’s characters from his 1926 books entered the public domain at the beginning of this year, but Disney’s iteration remains copyright protected for now.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

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. BTW, photos by federal law enforcement are public domain. May I use it?

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Creative Law Center

JANUARY 10, 2019

The public domain freeze is over. Here's how to tell if a work is in the public domain. The post What is in the Public Domain? More creative work is free for use than ever before. appeared first on Creative Law Center.

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IPilogue

MARCH 27, 2023

Every year on January 1, works protected under copyright law enter into the public domain due to their copyright protection expiring. Serena Nath is an IPilogue Writer and a 2L JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School.

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Likelihood of Confusion

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Newly discovered evidence [according to a court filing] “proves conclusively that Happy Birthday has been in the public domain since no later than 1922.” The post Where Were You When “Happy Birthday to You” Was Found to Be in the Public Domain? ” At stake is the more than.

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IPilogue

JULY 15, 2022

The IPilogue previously published about Winnie the Pooh entering the public domain when Ryan Reynolds created a fun viral commercial featuring the iconic original 1926 Winnie the Pooh. Ryan Reynolds’s fun-loving commercial was generally well-received by the public, but some claimed that this would “ ruin their childhood ”. .

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Creative Law Center

MARCH 2, 2019

The post Museums that Give Away Open Access Images of Public Domain Work appeared first on Creative Law Center. Innovative museums share their collections with high resolution open access images that can be used by anyone for anything.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 3, 2023

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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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Source: Screenshot of Night of the Living Dead (1968) opening credit / Public Domain. The film curiously entered the public domain due to a slight error, allowing widespread accessibility and reproduction. The film’s entry into the public domain allowed it to be licensed free of charge to any distributor.

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JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Public Domain Day is one of the lesser known winter holidays celebrated by the elite few – artists of all sorts and copyright attorneys.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 8, 2022

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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

Opposing the claimants’ arguments, Ravensburger challenged the cross-border application of Italian law, alleging that the claims conflict with article 14 of Copyright Directive in the Digital Single Market (CDSM) Directive since they attempt to unlawfully impose property assertions on public domain works. 633/1941, l.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 14, 2023

In particular, under EU law the Italian public cultural property seems to be inconsistent with art. 14 of the CDSM 2019/790 directive on works of visual art in the public domain. More from our authors: Guide to EU and UK Pharmaceutical Regulatory Law, Eighth Edition by Sally Shorthose € 265

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Dear Rich IP Blog

JANUARY 5, 2021

Dear Rich: Which (if any) US postage stamp images are in the public domain? I have read that stamps issued prior to 1978 are in the public domain. postage stamps issued before 1971 are definitely in the public domain. stamps are "public domain if issued before 31 December 1977." Is this true?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

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.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2021

It would be improper to list yourself as the publisher of a public domain song (we assume that by "traditional" you're referring to PD music). Because public domain songs are not protected by copyright (they are free to the public) no one can claim ownership of these compositions.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 9, 2023

Every year on January 1, new works enter the public domain. In 2023, all literary works, musical compositions, and movies first published or released in 1927 entered the public domain in the United States. Earlier works were already in the public domain. By: AEON Law

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Dear Rich IP Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Dear Rich: If a movie falls into the public domain, are all of the individual images in it also public domain? Yes, you are free to copy the individual frames or images from a public domain movie without permission. What if the image is of a movie star? What about movie stars?

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Dear Rich IP Blog

JUNE 19, 2021

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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Chicago-Kent Intellectual Property Journal Blog

APRIL 6, 2022

Disney’s Limiting of the Public Domain Sydney Fenton | April 6th, 2022 Creation of Copyright and the Public Domain On May 31, 1790, the first copyright law was enacted under the new United States Constitution, modeled after Britain’s Statute of Anne.[1]

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Dear Rich IP Blog

AUGUST 21, 2021

Public domain. The French and English books were published before 1926 and are in the public domain and you are free to reproduce everything from those two versions. Or would we need to get permission from the publisher that republished the book as part of their classics series?

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Corsearch

MARCH 13, 2023

Copyright © Walt Disney Animation Studios A background on copyright protections in the US All works that were published in the US prior to 1923 are now in the public domain, as is any work created by individuals in an official capacity for the federal government. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.

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Michael Geist

APRIL 12, 2022

As a result, there will be a two decade moratorium on new works entering the public domain, creating an enormous impact on access to Canadian culture and history for a generation. With the copyright term extension in Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s Budget 2022, the works are locked out of the public domain for a generation.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 17, 2022

On January 1, 2022, copyrighted works from 1926 will enter the US public domain. That means that anyone can copy, share, and build upon that work , but it doesn’t mean the public can do the same for things that are already derived from the original. What do I mean by that? Well, the first Winnie-the-Pooh book from A.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

AUGUST 18, 2020

I have used public domain quotes within the novel (from Aristotle, Lincoln, etc.), According to the Supreme Court , there is no legal requirement to provide attribution when public domain works are copied and placed into new works. Dear Rich: I have just finished writing a fantasy novel. Is this hinky?

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 3, 2023

Under the new terms, no new works will enter the public domain in Canada for 20 years. However, the change is not retroactive and any work that is already in the public domain in Canada will remain as such. 3: Happy Public Domain Day! Canada beat that deadline by a day.

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IP Close Up

JANUARY 3, 2023

What do Virginia Woolf’s ‘To The Lighthouse” and the final Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, the German science-fiction film ‘Metropolis’ and Alfred Hitchcock’s Continue reading.

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Art Law Journal

JANUARY 15, 2019

On Jan 1, 2019, we not only ushered in a new year but also an unprecedented amount of creative works entering the public domain. Steve Schlackman.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Although most countries have placed the artist's works in the public domain (based on the life+70 years rule), the U.S. for 95 years from publication. That puts all of the artist's works published before 1925 in the public domain in the U.S. follows a different course. A work first published outside the U.S.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Night of the Living Dead is possibly one of the most famous public domain movies of all time. However, at least one copy made it to the United States, where the original book was already in public domain. The book Frankenstein , written by Mary Shelley in 1818, has long lapsed into the public domain.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Whether it’s a movie becoming a holiday classic due to it being (briefly) in the public domain, holiday songs still very much under copyright, multiple legal questions around a children’s classic or some long-running myths that have changed the way people view some of the season’s most important characters, copyright has been a factor.

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The IP Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Thus, here, given that the plaintiff has Copyright Registrations, the burden shifts to Defendants to come forward with “evidence that the work[s] [were] copied from the public domain.” Defendants argued that because information concerning the Second Holy Temple is in the public domain, Plaintiff’s copyrighted works are not original.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The company’s failure to file for a new copyright after the movie ditched its original title ‘Night of the Flesh Eaters’ was the reason that Night of the Living Dead (NOLD) was quickly pushed into the public domain. NOLD inspired a whole genre of horror that has gained momentum with age. Night of the Copyright Claim.

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IPilogue

JULY 27, 2022

According to an interesting study on “ The effect of copyright term length on South African book markets ,” a book entering the public domain generates 26.5 additional editions on average after it enters the public domain. The concerns are loud and clear.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 3, 2022

Finally today, The Associated Press reports that, with the new year, several prominent works are lapsing into the public domain including the Ernest Hemingway novel The Sun Also Rises and A.A. Copyright Law, works lapse into the public domain on January First of the year their copyright expires.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

If I can determine that said letters have been on display at those libraries since before 1927, can I conclude that the first publication occurred before 1927, thus placing them in the public domain ? All unpublished works by individual authors who died in 1932 or earlier are in the public domain.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 27, 2021

How a Copyright Mistake Created the Modern Zombie : The second in the Creepy Copyright Mondays series was an explainer on how Night of the Living Dead , one of the most iconic zombie films, fell into the public domain. It’s an interesting look at how a public domain source and a modern interpretation can clash.

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