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Post date: Jan 09, 2019 1:51:24 PM
For the first time in 21 years, new copyrighted works entered the public domain in the United States on January 1, 2019, an event fondly known (well, to some) as Public Domain Day. HAPPY PUBLIC DOMAIN DAY!
Check out this article in Smithsonian Magazine for more about the fascinating history of copyright in the United States (you can blame Mickey Mouse) and what works are now available for your copyright-free use. Spoiler alert, they include the poem “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening” and the 1920s hit song, “Yes! We Have No Bananas” which your loyal librarian first learned while taking ballroom dance lessons during study abroad in Estonia in her golden days of youth. Because why not?
Source: Chiquita Bananas by Mike Mozart via a CC license.
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