"“The drought is over,” proclaims Duke Law School’s Center for the Public Domain,
highlighting some of the works which are now available royalty-free, by
authors from Edgar Rice Burroughs to Kahlil Gibran, PG Wodehouse to DH
Lawrence, Edith Wharton to EE Cummings. It’s not only books: copyright
in the US is also expiring on a host of films, paintings and music.
“The
public domain has been frozen in time for 20 years, and we’re reaching
the 20-year thaw,” the center’s director Jennifer Jenkins told the Smithsonian.
The magazine predicted that the release’s impact on culture and
creativity could be huge, because “we have never seen such a mass entry
into the public domain in the digital age”. Brewster Kahle, founder of
the Internet Archive, told the Smithsonian: “We have shortchanged a
generation. The 20th century is largely missing from the internet.”"
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