Public Domain Day is the yearly celebration of a new group of copyrighted creative works entering the public domain, making them freely accessible to all. Public Domain Day is the perfect opportunity to learn about legal concepts and challenges surrounding intellectual property law and how this evolving area of law affects libraries. The pandemic has increased the demand for access to digital materials as large book publishers merged while library in-person services became limited, resulting in raised tensions between authors, publishers, and libraries.
Read morePublic Domain Day: Class of 2022!
Each New Year, a new batch of creative works enters the public domain as their copyright terms expire and they become free to use, reuse, and share. Public Domain Day is observed each January 1st to commemorate the works that enter the public domain. In 2022, thousands of works first published in 1926 became public domain, including A. A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh, Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, and Franz Kafka’s The Castle, as well as over 400,000 sound recordings from pre-1923.
Read moreThe Great Gatsby - Now Even Greater
Long recognized as a classic of American literature and very often styled as the “Great American Novel,” The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald has now found its place among the legal classics available to users of HeinOnline through the Legal Classics Library.
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