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Ben-Hur was based on Lew Wallace’s novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880). Many of these movies were built on public domain works.

Rocky & His Friends (later called Rocky and Bullwinkle).

(Google Books has brought us closer to this reality, but for copyrighted books where there is no separate agreement with the copyright holder, it only shows three short snippets, not the whole book.) Instead of seeing these literary works enter the public domain in 2016, we will have to wait until 2055. Imagine a digital Library of Alexandria containing all of the world’s books from 1959 and earlier, where, thanks to technology, you can search, link, annotate, copy and paste. Empirical studies have shown that public domain books are less expensive, available in more editions and formats, and more likely to be in print-see here, here, and here.

Twilight zone music free#

2 (If you think publishers wouldn’t object to this, you would be wrong.) You could read them online or buy cheaper print editions, because others were free to republish them. You could translate them into other languages, or create accessible Braille or audio versions. You would be free to use these books in your own stories, adapt them for local theater, or make them into a film. "Long ago, during the last age of reason, certain proud thinkers had claimed that valid knowledge was indestructible-that ideas were deathless and truth immortal." At least if you can get to it. And then there are the sci-fi offerings, from Canticle to Troopers. Readers – from the conspiracy theorist to the grammar enthusiast, the student of racial injustice to the sociologist – would have something to celebrate. Imagine them being freely available to students and educators around the world. The books above are but a fraction, a tiny fraction, of what would be entering the public domain on January 1.

Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination

What books and plays would be entering the public domain if we had the pre-1978 copyright laws? You might recognize some of the titles below.Ĭ. The laws in other countries are different- thousands of works are entering the public domain in Canada and the EU on January 1. 1 And no published works will enter our public domain until 2019. Under those laws, works published in 1959 would enter the public domain on January 1, 2016, where they would be “free as the air to common use.” Under current copyright law, we’ll have to wait until 2055. But prior to the 1976 Copyright Act (which became effective in 1978), the maximum copyright term was 56 years-an initial term of 28 years, renewable for another 28 years. The films North by Northwest and Ben-Hur, the play A Raisin in the Sun, the books The Naked Lunch and Starship Troopers, the first episodes of The Twilight Zone, and more. . .Ĭurrent US law extends copyright for 70 years after the date of the author’s death, and corporate “works-for-hire” are copyrighted for 95 years after publication. What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2016?