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January 12, 2021

Works from 1925 Enter the Public Domain

On January 1, 2021, copyrighted works from 1925 entered the public domain. Several amendments to federal copyright law throughout the 20th century extended the copyright terms of works from 1925 resulting in a total term of 95 years. Now, after almost a century of waiting, many notable works of...
Copyright
January 9, 2020

Works from 1924 Enter the Public Domain

This year, copyrighted works published in 1924 have entered the public domain after 95 years of copyright protection. In 2019, published works entered the public domain for the first time in decades after a 20 year lapse. Several amendments to federal copyright law throughout the 20th century...
Copyright
July 25, 2019
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CC Search: Finding Openly Licensed and Public Domain Images

Have you ever had difficulty finding a digital image to use in a presentation, blog post, website, or other project that doesn’t infringe upon the image creator’s intellectual property rights? You’re in luck. Creative Commons recently launched a new tool called CC Search that allows users to search...
Copyright
January 23, 2018
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Now We Got Bad Blood: Taylor Swift & Copyright Law

This article is republished with permission by W.S. Hein. View the original article here. Haters Gonna Hate Recently, singer-songwriter Taylor Swift has had to shake off claims that she stole her lyrics for her famous 2014 hit single “Shake It Off.” Call it what you want, but Swift has caused some...
Copyright
April 7, 2016

Jenkins On Your Desktop: Patent, Copyright & Trademark Collection on Nolo

Use the Nolo database to begin research in an unfamiliar area of law.
Copyright
April 23, 2014

Jenkins On Your Desktop: Copyright Subject Searching on LegalTrac

Find out how to search for copyright articles on LegalTrac.