Project GutenbergJan 1, 2025

HAPPY PUBLIC DOMAIN DAY!

Books which will enter the US public domain:

William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest and The Maltese Falcon (as serialized in Black Mask magazine)
John Steinbeck, Cup of Gold (Steinbeck's first novel)
Richard Hughes, A High Wind in Jamaica
Oliver La Farge, Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story
Patrick Hamilton, Rope

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Show threadNitin KhannaJan 1, 2025
@gutenberg_org someone said Tintin is coming to public domain too? Maybe the earliest US prints?
Show threadProject GutenbergJan 1, 2025

@nitinkhanna Yes, that's true, see below:

E. C. Segar, Popeye (in “Gobs of Work” from the Thimble Theatre comic strip)

Hergé (Georges Remi), Tintin (in “Les Aventures de Tintin” from the magazine Le Petit Vingtième)

Show threadNitin Khanna
@gutenberg_org excellent! Time for me to change my profile picture!
Jan 1, 2025 at 11:32amFeditext
Show threadmichaelJan 1, 2025
@nitinkhanna @gutenberg_org what happened to the 70 years after death rule? Herge died in 1983
Show threadNitin KhannaJan 1, 2025
@gutenberg_org @proseandpassion capitalism happened.
Show threadGarrett WollmanJan 1, 2025
@proseandpassion @nitinkhanna @gutenberg_org The US had fixed copyright terms until 1976, so different rules apply for works published before then. For foreign authors, in some cases, it was possible to restore some copyrights that had lapsed. Different rules also apply for works made for hire and works of corporate authorship.