- Pronouns
- he/him
In just 15 days, a wide variety of works (not including sound recordings which have a separate copyright law) from 1926 will enter the US public domain. These include A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh, Felix Salter's Bambi, Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, the composition of Puccini's opera Turandot (and the aria Nessun Dorma) and the sheet music for Gershwin's Someone To Watch Over Me among many others. HathiTrust says 42,000 works will be newly unlocked next year
everybodyslibraries.com
For the first time ever, sound recordings will be entering the public domain. The Music Modernization Act provided a pathway for pre-1972 sound recordings to have their copyrights expire as before the MMA, a patchwork of state laws essentially meant very old sound recordings would remain in copyright indefinitely. Now, pre-1923 sound recordings like Fanny Brice's 1921 record "Second Hand Rose" (the song would be revived by Barbra Streisand in 1965) will finally be free for anyone to use, remix or reuse. Definitely a boon to streamers.
1923 sound recordings will enter the public domain on January 1, 2024. Sound recordings from 1923-1946 will have a five year transition period after the underlying composition enters the public domain (all musical compositions published in 1923 entered the public domain on Jan. 1, 2019).
As far as film, 1926 marks the beginning of the transition to sound pictures. The first commercially viable sound picture, The Jazz Singer, wouldn't be until 1927, but synchronized music was included on a few 1926 films like Don Juan. Vitaphone and Movietone were competing technologies.
Coming soon to the public domain in 2022
One of the blessings of what’s been a rough couple of years is that Public Domain Day is now a routine cause for celebration in the United States. For 20 years up to 2019, very little entered…
everybodyslibraries.com
For the first time ever, sound recordings will be entering the public domain. The Music Modernization Act provided a pathway for pre-1972 sound recordings to have their copyrights expire as before the MMA, a patchwork of state laws essentially meant very old sound recordings would remain in copyright indefinitely. Now, pre-1923 sound recordings like Fanny Brice's 1921 record "Second Hand Rose" (the song would be revived by Barbra Streisand in 1965) will finally be free for anyone to use, remix or reuse. Definitely a boon to streamers.
1923 sound recordings will enter the public domain on January 1, 2024. Sound recordings from 1923-1946 will have a five year transition period after the underlying composition enters the public domain (all musical compositions published in 1923 entered the public domain on Jan. 1, 2019).
Citizen DJ / Public Domain Audio Release 2022
Citizen DJ invites the public to make music using free-to-use audio and video collections. By embedding these materials in hip hop music, listeners can discover items in the library's vast collections that they likely would never have known existed.
citizen-dj.labs.loc.gov
As far as film, 1926 marks the beginning of the transition to sound pictures. The first commercially viable sound picture, The Jazz Singer, wouldn't be until 1927, but synchronized music was included on a few 1926 films like Don Juan. Vitaphone and Movietone were competing technologies.
