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What do the following works all have in common? musical composition of Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin  The Man in the Brown Suite by Agatha Christie When We Were Very Young  by A.A. Milne The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann the first film adaption of Peter Pan* They all entered the US public domain on January 1, 2020! On that day works from 1924 entered the US public domain " where they will be free for all to use and build upon, without permission or fee ." As a historic note, these works would have entered public domain in 2000, but Congress extended copyright terms to 95 years, so we just began having yearly release of works into the public domain in 2019 again.  Why is this important?  Yearly new works are made available for a variety of uses.  From the Center for the Study of the Public Domain (maintained by Duke Law): How will people celebrate this trove of cultural material? The Internet Archive will add books, movies, music, and more t...

Great find of images, primary sources, and a variety of other resources for school use! From the site: "DPLA connects people to the riches held within America’s libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions. All of the materials found through DPLA —photographs, books, maps, news footage, oral histories, personal letters, museum objects, artwork, government documents, and so much more— are free and immediately available in digital format . The cultural institutions participating in DPLA represent the richness and diversity of America itself, from the smallest local history museum to our nation’s largest cultural institutions. Our core work includes bringing new collections and partners into DPLA, building our technology, and managing projects that further our mission through curation, education, and community building."