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https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/17/boop-oop-a-doop/
But then, miraculously, astoundingly, 2019 rolled around and *we got new works in the public domain*!
https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2019/
For decades, #JenniferJenkins from the #Duke #CenterForTheStudyOfThePublicDomain published an annual lament for the public domain works we *weren't* getting that year.
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No one is better at conveying the power of the public domain than #JenniferJenkins and @thepublicdomain, who run the #DukeCenterForTheStudyOfThePublicDomain. For years leading up to 2019, the pair published an annual roundup of what we *would* have gotten from the public domain in a universe where the 1998 Act never passed. Since 2019, they've switched to celebrating what we're *actually* getting each year. Last year's was a *banger*:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/20/free-for-2023/#oy-canada
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