{"id":3174,"date":"2013-01-01T12:36:57","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T16:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/?p=3174"},"modified":"2013-01-02T03:06:45","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T07:06:45","slug":"happy-public-domain-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2013\/01\/01\/happy-public-domain-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Domain Day! Happy 2013 from 13 creators"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Public Domain Day<\/strong>! Today millions of works – everything made by people that died in 1942<\/a>* and not previously public – enter the public domain in most of the world.**<\/p>\n

See the Public Domain Review<\/a>, which compiled this “class of 13” collection of some of the best known authors and artists, and the related celebrations by hyperallergic<\/a>, crackajack<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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For a more US-centric view, with a heavy dose of “what were we thinking when we set up current copyright law?” activism, see the Public Domain Day summary<\/a> by Duke’s insightful Center for the Public Domain. They also track the Alternate Universe Public Domain list<\/a> for the simple alternate universe in which copyright laws remained as they were in 1976. This is a harder thing to visualize each year, since in this alternate universe so many other things (anything published between 1923 and 1955) would already also be free.<\/p>\n

* in most countries<\/p>\n

** but not in the US. The ‘Sonny Bono’ CTE Act<\/a> created a backlog that will all enter the public domain in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Happy Public Domain Day! Today millions of works – everything made by people that died in 1942* and not previously public – enter the public domain in most of the world.** See the Public Domain Review, which compiled this “class of 13” collection of some of the best known authors and artists, and the related […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[210,211,14968,709],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chain-gang","category-international","category-knowledge","category-wikipedia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-Pc","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3174"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3189,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174\/revisions\/3189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}