{"id":1510,"date":"2011-01-02T03:37:07","date_gmt":"2011-01-02T03:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/?p=1510"},"modified":"2011-01-02T03:37:07","modified_gmt":"2011-01-02T03:37:07","slug":"happy-public-domain-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/02\/happy-public-domain-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Public Domain Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, in many countries around the world, new works become public property: January 1st every year is <a href=\"http:\/\/publicdomainday.org\/\">Public Domain Day<\/a>. Material <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.duke.edu\/cspd\/publicdomainday\/pddfaq#q01\">in the public domain<\/a> can be used, remixed and shared freely &#8212; without violating copyright and without asking permission.<\/p>\n<p>However, in the United States, not a single new work entered the public domain today. Americans must wait 8 more years: Under United States copyright law, nothing more will be added to the public domain until January 1, 2019. <\/p>\n<p>Until the 1970&#8217;s the maximum copyright term was 56 years. Under that law, Americans would have been able to truly celebrate Public Domain Day:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>All works published in 1954 would be entering the public domain today.<\/li>\n<li>up to 85% of all copyrighted works from 1982 would be entering the public domain today. (Copyright Office and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.duke.edu\/cspd\/publicdomainday\/pre1976\">Duke<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Instead, only works published before 1923 are conclusively in the public domain in the U.S. today. What about post-1923 publications? <a href=\"http:\/\/copyright.cornell.edu\/resources\/publicdomain.cfm\">It&#8217;s complicated:<\/a> in the United States ((<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawcatalog.com\/product_detail.cfm?productID=9950&#038;masterid=3821\">609 pages worth of complicated<\/a>)).<\/p>\n<p>For more information on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.duke.edu\/cspd\/publicdomainday\">Public Domain Day and the United States<\/a>, Duke&#8217;s Center for the Study of the Public Domain has a series of useful pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, in many countries around the world, new works become public property: January 1st every year is Public Domain Day. Material in the public domain can be used, remixed and shared freely &#8212; without violating copyright and without asking permission. However, in the United States, not a single new work entered the public domain today. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,85,77,64],"tags":[329,331,330],"class_list":["post-1510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-reading","category-information-ecosystem","category-intellectual-freedom","category-library-and-information-science","tag-copyright","tag-copyright-law","tag-public-domain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1510"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1521,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions\/1521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}