A Mass of Copyrighted Works Will Soon Enter the Public Domain - Slashdot

A Mass of Copyrighted Works Will Soon Enter the Public Domain - Slashdot: It will be joined by hundreds of thousands of other books, musical scores, and films first published in the United States during 1923. It's the first time since 1998 for a mass shift to the public domain of material protected under copyright. It's also the beginning of a new annual tradition: For several decades from 2019 onward, each New Year's Day will unleash a full year's worth of works published 95 years earlier.