01-05-2024, 08:40 PM | #1 |
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Books/Plays Entered US Public Domain 2024
According to Duke University, these are a sample of books and plays that entered US public domain January 1st 2024. They also list some films and audio recordings too.
D.H Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera (in the original German, Die Dreigroschenoper) Virginia Woolf, Orlando Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front (in the original German, Im Westen nichts Neues) W.E.B. Du Bois, Dark Princess Claude McKay, Home to Harlem A. A. Milne, illustrations by E. H. Shepard, House at Pooh Corner (introducing the Tigger character) J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan; or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up (because the play’s script was not “published” for copyright purposes until 1928; note that Barrie’s 1911 novel “Peter and Wendy” has been public domain since 1967) Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness Evelyn Waugh,Decline and Fall Agatha Christie, The Mystery of the Blue Train Wanda Gág, Millions of Cats (the oldest American picture book still in print) Robert Frost, West-Running Brook Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, The Front Page https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2024/ |
01-05-2024, 10:15 PM | #2 |
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The Mystery of the Blue Train
On Standardebooks already |
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01-08-2024, 10:17 AM | #3 |
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FYI, the first all talking movie went PD as well (The Lights Of New York)
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01-30-2024, 09:50 AM | #5 |
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"Point Counter Point", Aldous Huxley.
I started it, some interesting parts, too many sloggy parts. DNF |
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