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I'd like to know what DID enter the public domain, more than getting sorry for what did not.

• erikpukinskis 16y ago
  I think Plato's "Republic" will enter the public domain next year, although legislation is pending.
• gojomo 16y ago
  Unfortunately, because of discontinous extensions, no published works are entering the US public domain again until 2019: http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday Of course, whether any actually enter the public domain then depends on Congress not retroactively extending copyright terms again. Perhaps Congress will choose a term of 'heat death of the universe, plus one day' — which the courts could still uphold as technically 'limited' per the Constitution.
• follower 16y ago
  In addition to the (currently down) http://www.publicdomainworks.net/stats/year/2011 http://www.publicdomainworks.net/stats/year/2011 link provided by 2mur this blog entry also talks about what entered the public domain this year: http://blog.okfn.org/2010/10/18/which-works-enter-the-public-domain-in-2011/ http://blog.okfn.org/2010/10/18/which-works-enter-the-public... Also, my interpretation of the original post is that it's not a mere lamentation but also a reminder to question the current state of copyright and public domain legislation. Who benefits? Who loses? To what degree? And why? And it does so with concrete examples.
• ootachi 16y ago
  Most legal analysts now believe that no more works will ever enter the public domain. Copyright is perpetual.