Corey D ClawsonDec 20, 2022
John Overholt
January 1, 2023 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1927 are open to all! https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2023/
Public Domain Day 2023 | Duke University School of Law

Tweet       By Jennifer Jenkins, Director of Duke’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain January 1, 2023 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1927 are open to all! On January 1, 2023, copyrighted works from 1927 will enter the US public domain. 1  They will be free for all to copy, share, and build upon. These 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.

Dec 20, 2022 at 10:59pmWeb
Show threadsnagglefangsDec 20, 2022
@overholt YES!!!!
Show threademmett (they/he)Dec 20, 2022
@overholt Metropolis!!!
Show threadMark SaltveitDec 20, 2022
@overholt
Any idea why so many books on Google I ternet Archive and Hathi Trust from before 1927 are still blocked from downloading?
Show threadZachary K. ThompsonDec 30, 2022
@overholt @taoish It has to be Jan. 1 before the copyright runs out
Show threadDaniel SyrovyDec 20, 2022
@overholt no more exuses not to read Death Comes for the Archbishop.. what a novel!
Show threadRupert ClaytonDec 21, 2022
@syrovy @overholt Putting the final touches on my Death Comes for the Archbishop / Now We Are Six mashup.
Show threadamen_raDec 20, 2022
@overholt 🤩‼️ my first time seeing Metropolis was also my very first gay date 🏳️‍🌈. @tusk81 asked me out to see this legendary film which was playing at the Castro Theatre for its 75th anniversary. Great memory. #metropolis #lgbtq #sanfrancisco
Show threadBrian LeechDec 21, 2022
@overholt Stay tuned for my mid-January mashup, Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Robotic New Mexican Archbishop.
Show threadAusirDec 21, 2022
@overholt to all in the US at least, in Europe it's works by authors who died by 1952 instead, since it's death + 70 years here
Show threadAaron CohenDec 21, 2022
@overholt Bottom middle looks pretty good tbh
Show threadthe irreducibleDec 21, 2022
@overholt Metropolis!
Show threadJamesTDGDec 21, 2022
@overholt now if only we had shit from the Atomic age in the public domain, that's literally the largest boom of sci-fi culture
Show threadTim PierceDec 21, 2022
@overholt Metropolis finally entering the public domain is real cause for celebration.
Show threadCarlos SolísDec 21, 2022
@overholt ...except on countries without the rule of the shorter term and with terms longer than life plus 70. If we want to be precise, works from authors that died in 1922 are going to be open for all
Show threadLizardDec 22, 2022
@overholt First 50 issues of Weird Tales. :)
Show threadGelmanDec 23, 2022
@overholt I'm particularly excited for "Metropolis", Wings, and "Battle of the Century"! #PublicDomain #LaurelAndHardy #FritzLang
https://youtu.be/LpYw8h1Y0TU
Laurel and Hardy in The Battle of the Century (1927)

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Show threadKennethDec 29, 2022
@overholt Dibs on Metropolis.
Show threadSteven KinCannon 🇵🇸Dec 30, 2022
@overholt Maybe such a thing already exists, but it would be great to have a reading group that read these books each year. Or maybe I'm just a big old nerd.