All Of These Works Should Be In The Public Domain, But Aren't

Posted by BernardSwiss on Jan 7, 2015 7:32 AM EDT
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Every year for the past few years, the good folks at Duke's Center for the Study of the Public Domain have put up a list of works that should have gone into the public domain on January 1st had Congress not massively expanded the law. Each year, it's a depressing look at what works should be in the public domain. As a reminder, when these works were created, the creators knew the terms under which they were created and knew that they would have gone into the public domain by now -- and they found that to be more than enough incentive to create those works.

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The original reasoning of Copyright Bob_Robertson 6 2,185 Jan 9, 2015 1:58 AM

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