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Happy Public Domain Day 2024!

For anyone vaguely tuned in to the machinations of copyright law, this Public Domain Day (the day at the start of each year on which works enter the public domain) is an extra special one, for it finally sees the appearance of a certain mouse. That’s right… Mickey is free! At least the particular iteration of Mickey that first graced our screens in Disney’s 1928 film Steamboat Willie. And, at least in the United States, which sees works from 1928 enter the public domain today.

 

Read more on Public Domain Review: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2024/01/public-domain-day-2024

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It’s Our 10th Birthday! Celebrating a Decade of The Public Domain Review

Ten years ago today — on 1st January 2011 — we launched The Public Domain Review! Since this auspicious day we’ve published 272 essays, 935 collection posts, featured 134 cultural archives and institutions, and welcomed a whopping 17 million of you to the site. We will be marking this momentous milestone of our tenth birthday with a number of exciting things, to be revealed over the next weeks and months. But for now, on the day itself, we thought it’d be fitting to treat you to a year-by-year glance back over the last decade of the project.

 

Read more on Public Domain Review: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2021/01/celebrating-a-decade-of-the-public-domain-review