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If you don't know (and if you do, I'd like to remind you ๐), New Year's Day was also Public Domain Day 2025. This means that under current US law, 95 years after their creation, films, books, comics, illustrations, and all the characters from these works published in 1929 have been put into the public domain.
Source: Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle, Directors, Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain, CC BY 4.0
It would be wrong to think this is useless, even though it is old.
Thousands of works of art were created in 1929 and are now in the public domain. They can be copied, shared, and adapted, even for commercial purposes, without permission. CC0 1.0 Universal
To name but a few novels that are classics of world literature:
- Virginia Woolf - A Room of One's Own;
- Ernest Hemingway - A Farewell to Arms;
- John Steinbeck - Cup of Gold;
Some movies:
- The Cocoanuts, directed by Robert Florey and Joseph Santley (the first Marx Brothers feature film);
- Blackmail, directed by Alfred Hitchcock (Hitchcockโs first sound film);
- The Black Watch, directed by John Ford (Fordโs first sound film);
Watch The Skeleton Dance cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and animated by Ub Iwerks (the first Silly Symphony short from Disney)
Two comic book characters:
Popeye
By E. C. Segar - Newspapers.com, Public Domain, Link
Tintin
By Hergรฉ - Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, PD-US, Link
Sound recordings are subject to different rules. Copyright expires after 100 years, and each song performance has its copyright.
Listen to Singin' in the Rain from The Hollywood Revue of 1929, directed by Charles Reisner.
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January 1, 2025, is Public Domain Day: Works from 1929 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1924!
If you are more interested in all publicly owned works, follow the link above, where all the new PD works are listed.
Alternatively, you can browse and research the most significant public domain work archive: Archive.org.
I'm sure we can expect many future adaptations and remixes of these works, especially now that AI can help with this.
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This actually is very important. I am afraid that usages of these works wonโt be so artistic as were the originals.
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Yes, the AI one is still questionable. But I recommend watching Everything is a Remix, a four-part documentary about copyright and its limitations. It covers music, films, and other media.
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Stop being afraid!
that's really cool topic, I read somewhere that Popeye is also public
Yes, I mentioned it. But only the first comic, others will be free next year :)
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Does that include Buster Keaton or Charley Chaplin? They couldn't be real,had to be animation...๐๐
All films made up to 1929 are in the public domain. So, Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr. (1924), The Cameraman (1928), and Spite Marriage (1929). Also, Charlie Chaplin's The Kid (1921) and The Circus (1928).
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Mi first though was that all this was about cartoon works...that all..
What could be the reason for this decision?
That's a US law.
TinTin now that's a blast from the past.
Great info and I forget about this every year.
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Happy New Year to you, too. Yeah, I read a lot of TinTin stories when I was a kid :)
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