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Everybody’s Library Questions: Newspaper copyrights, notices, and renewals
Because I blog about copyrights for serials, I occasionally get questions in comments to my posts about determining what exactly is copyrighted in those serials. I’ve been slow to answer them in the comments threads, partly because some of them … Continue reading
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More and better copyright data online for serials and books
It’s getting easier over time to find and use data on copyrights, and thereby to find and make use of materials in the public domain. Here’s a quick update on what’s new and what’s coming, in my projects and elsewhere. … Continue reading
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Public Domain Day 2019: Welcome to 1923!
Early this morning, a full year’s worth of published works were welcomed into the public domain in the United States for the first time since 1998. Hundreds of thousands of works from 1923 either joined the public domain here, or … Continue reading
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Public Domain Day advent calendar #31: New Hampshire by Robert Frost
…for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice. So ends “Fire and Ice”, one of the more than forty poems included in Robert Frost‘s 1923 Pulitzer Prize-winning collection New Hampshire. Frost’s short poem uses ice as a metaphor for … Continue reading
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Public Domain Day advent calendar #30: In the Orchard by Virginia Woolf
“The world broke in two in 1922 or thereabouts,” Willa Cather wrote in a preface to a 1936 collection of essays. Many read her remark as referring to major changes in literary forms and styles underway in the early 1920s, … Continue reading
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Public Domain Day advent calendar #29: Success by A. A. Milne
I’ve been giving plays somewhat short shrift in this calendar so far. The only ones I’ve mentioned so far were noted in yesterday’s post as not actually joining the public domain in January. So today I’ll discuss a play from … Continue reading
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Public Domain Day advent calendar #28: Parisian Pierrot by Noël Coward
One of the hits of the 1923 London theater season was the musical revue London Calling! It was the first publicly performed musical by Noël Coward, who starred in the 1923 production alongside Gertrude Lawrence, and who continued to write … Continue reading
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Public Domain Day advent calendar #27: The Invisible Monster by Sonia Greene
Visitors to newsstands in early 1923 encountered a number of significant American magazines for the first time. They could pick up the first issues of Time, with brief, breezy dispatches relating the week’s news from around the world. (Issues of … Continue reading
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Public Domain Day advent calendar #26: Crystallizing Public Opinion by Edward L. Bernays
“Online manipulation and disinformation tactics played an important role in elections in at least 18 countries over the past year, including in the United States.” That was the lead finding of Freedom House’s 2017 Freedom on the Net report, “Manipulating … Continue reading
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Public Domain Day advent calendar #25: Christmas Day at Sea by Joseph Conrad
“In all my twenty years of wandering over the restless waters of the globe I can only remember one Christmas Day celebrated by a present given and received.” By the time Joseph Conrad wrote that line in 1923, he had … Continue reading
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