A Landslide of Classic Art Is About to Enter the Public Domain
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The Great American Novel enters the public domain on January 1, 2019—quite literally. Not the concept, but the book by William Carlos Williams. It will be joined by hundreds of thousands of other books, musical scores, and films first published in the United States during 1923. It’s the first time since 1998 for a mass shift to the public domain of material protected under copyright. It’s also the beginning of a new annual tradition: For several decades from 2019 onward, each New Year’s Day will unleash a full year’s worth of works published 95 years earlier.
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Do you expect this to actually happen? I'm still waiting for Big Copyright (Disney, Sony, etc.) to jump in once again and preempt the natural order of public domain in the United States. All the article says about this is:
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It’s possible this could all change again as corporate copyright holders start to get itchy about expirations. However, the United States is now in harmony with most of the rest of the world, and no legislative action is underway this year to make any waves that would affect the 2019 rollover.
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Has anyone seen any reaction from corporate lawyers on this?