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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Except in Canada, where copyright was extended from death +50 to death +70 in 2022… Canada, where public domain day has been cancelled for 20 years, where children will grow to adulthood without seeing a single new public domain work. 😞

#CopyRight #CopyTheft #CorporateGreed

@DavidM_yeg @gutenberg_org only for Canadian works, the rest of the world still has them every year and the public domain is worldwide.

@david_preston @gutenberg_org

Copyright in Canada was death+50… before the change I could make, promote, profit from derivative works at that point even for foreign creators… but only within Canada and other countries with the same terms.

@DavidM_yeg @gutenberg_org ah yes, 20 years is a long time to wait for that