Public Domain articles

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  US Copyright Office considers stopgap scanning solution for card catalog due to 'rudimentary budget'

  By Jeff Blagdon on April 2, 2012 11:47 pm + 5 comments

  Struggling to convert the tens of millions of pre-1978 copyrights in its massive card catalog into a searchable, digital format, the US Copyright Office is considering uploading scanned images of the Continue reading…

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  James Joyce enters the public domain, but the auteurs of 1955 must wait

  By Joseph Parish on January 1, 2012 11:44 pm + 25 comments

  January 1st is Public Domain Day, and that means that under the current copyright law, the works of artists, writers, and musicians who died 70 years ago (1941) become freely available to copy, adapt, Continue reading…