February 2021
Happy Belated Public Domain Day (a.k.a. New Year’s Day)! Every new year, the copyright on certain works expires and they enter into the public domain. On January 1, 2021, this consisted of works copyrighted in 1925 (notably including The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald).
Speaking of copyright, it has been in the news a lot lately, from the lawsuit against the Internet Archive to the passing of the controversial CASE Act. Also, the U.S. Copyright Office (USCO) had a milestone this last summer: 150 years of service. According to their website, copyright was “first centralized within the Library of Congress 150 years ago in 1870.” In the September/October 2020 issue of its magazine, the Library of Congress celebrated this anniversary by taking an in-depth look at various aspects of copyright.
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