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Works that entered the public domain for the first time on January 1, 2023 include: | Works that entered the public domain for the first time on January 1, 2023 include: | ||
{{cquote|Virginia Woolf's ''To The Lighthouse'' and the final Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, the German science-fiction film Metropolis and Alfred Hitchcock's first thriller, compositions by Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller, and a novelty song about ice cream.<ref name="Duke">https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2023/</ref>}} | {{cquote|Virginia Woolf's ''To The Lighthouse'' and the final Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, the German science-fiction film Metropolis and Alfred Hitchcock's first thriller, compositions by Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller, and a novelty song about ice cream.<ref name="Duke">https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2023/</ref>}} | ||
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Here is a partial list of books that entered the public domain on January 1, 2023, because they were first published in 1927:<ref name="Duke"/> | Here is a partial list of books that entered the public domain on January 1, 2023, because they were first published in 1927:<ref name="Duke"/> | ||
Revision as of 05:11, January 9, 2023
Public Domain Day 2023 celebrates the treasure trove of works, including books and movies, that entered the public domain on January 1, 2023: everything first published or released in the United States through the end of 1927.
Works that entered the public domain for the first time on January 1, 2023 include:
| “ | Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse and the final Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, the German science-fiction film Metropolis and Alfred Hitchcock's first thriller, compositions by Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller, and a novelty song about ice cream.[1] | ” |
Movies entering public domain on Jan. 1, 2023
Writings entering public domain on Jan. 1, 2023
Here is a partial list of books that entered the public domain on January 1, 2023, because they were first published in 1927:[1]
- Arthur Conan Doyle's later copyrighted works, including The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
- Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop
- Agatha Christie, The Big Four
- Franklin W. Dixon (pen name), The Tower Treasure (which was the first of the Hardy Boys books)
- William Faulkner, Mosquitoes
- Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women (his short stories)
- A.A. Milne, Now We Are Six (E.H. Shepard illustrator)
- Edith Wharton, Twilight Sleep
- Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey
- Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse