U.S. Public Domain 2025

Fbone · 01-04-2025, 04:53 PM

"Works from 1929 and sound recordings from 1924 are now open to all in the U.S. This means all books, films, songs and art published throughout the Roaring 20s are without copyright protection, making 2025 a significant year for the public domain."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-pub...in-works-2025/

https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2025/

A partial list:

"A Farewell to Arms," by Ernest Hemingway
"The Sound and the Fury," by William Faulkner
"Seven Dials Mystery," by Agatha Christie
"A Room of One's Own" by Virginia Woolf
The first English version of "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque, translated by Arthur Wesley Wheen
"Red Harvest" and "The Maltese Falcon" by Dashiell Hammett, (as serialized in Black Mask magazine
"Rope," by Patrick Hamilton
"The Karnival Kid," Mickey Mouse's first talking appearance and the debut of his signature white gloves, along with 11 other Mickey shorts
"The Cocoanuts," the Marx Brothers' first feature film, directed by Robert Florey and Joseph Santley
"The Skeleton Dance," Disney's first "Silly Symphony" short, directed by Walt Disney and animated by Ub Iwerks
"Blackmail," directed by Alfred Hitchcock, his first sound film
"Hallelujah," directed by King Vidor, considered to be one of the first major studio films to feature an all-Black cast
The character of Popeye by E. C. Segar as he appeared in the "Thimble Theatre" comic strip "Gobs of Work"
The character of Tintin by Hergé as he appeared in the Le Petit Vingtième magazine comic strip "Les Aventures de Tintin"
"Singin' in the Rain," music by Nacio Herb Brown, lyrics by Arthur Freed
"An American in Paris," composed by George Gershwin
"Tiptoe Through the Tulips," music by Joseph Burke, lyrics by Alfred Dubin

Aleron Ives · 01-04-2025, 05:16 PM

Yep, Standard E-Books has a bunch of them available now.

JSWolf · 01-05-2025, 05:31 AM

How many books are PD such that that can be posted to MR?

Greg Anos · 01-05-2025, 11:33 AM

Only those whose authors died in 1954 or earlier. (This website operates under Life+70 rules.)

01-04-2025, 04:53 PM	#1
Fbone Is that a sandwich? Posts: 8,261 Karma: 101696762 Join Date: Jun 2010 Device: Nook Glowlight Plus	U.S. Public Domain 2025 "Works from 1929 and sound recordings from 1924 are now open to all in the U.S. This means all books, films, songs and art published throughout the Roaring 20s are without copyright protection, making 2025 a significant year for the public domain." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-pub...in-works-2025/ https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2025/ A partial list: "A Farewell to Arms," by Ernest Hemingway "The Sound and the Fury," by William Faulkner "Seven Dials Mystery," by Agatha Christie "A Room of One's Own" by Virginia Woolf The first English version of "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque, translated by Arthur Wesley Wheen "Red Harvest" and "The Maltese Falcon" by Dashiell Hammett, (as serialized in Black Mask magazine "Rope," by Patrick Hamilton "The Karnival Kid," Mickey Mouse's first talking appearance and the debut of his signature white gloves, along with 11 other Mickey shorts "The Cocoanuts," the Marx Brothers' first feature film, directed by Robert Florey and Joseph Santley "The Skeleton Dance," Disney's first "Silly Symphony" short, directed by Walt Disney and animated by Ub Iwerks "Blackmail," directed by Alfred Hitchcock, his first sound film "Hallelujah," directed by King Vidor, considered to be one of the first major studio films to feature an all-Black cast The character of Popeye by E. C. Segar as he appeared in the "Thimble Theatre" comic strip "Gobs of Work" The character of Tintin by Hergé as he appeared in the Le Petit Vingtième magazine comic strip "Les Aventures de Tintin" "Singin' in the Rain," music by Nacio Herb Brown, lyrics by Arthur Freed "An American in Paris," composed by George Gershwin "Tiptoe Through the Tulips," music by Joseph Burke, lyrics by Alfred Dubin

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Aleron Ives Wizard Posts: 1,588 Karma: 16300090 Join Date: Sep 2022 Device: Kobo Libra 2	Yep, Standard E-Books has a bunch of them available now.

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Greg Anos Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,478 Karma: 37057604 Join Date: Jan 2008 Device: Pocketbook	Only those whose authors died in 1954 or earlier. (This website operates under Life+70 rules.)

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