Public Domain Day
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public-domain-day-164-4869092
title:
Public Domain Day
text:
Public Domain Day (PDD) is an observance of when copyrights expire and works enter into the public domain. This legal transition of copyright works into the public domain usually happens every year on January 1 based on the individual copyright laws of each country. The observance of a "Public Domain Day" was initially informal; the earliest known mention was in 2004 by Wallace McLean, with support for the idea echoed by Lawrence Lessig. Several websites list the authors whose works are entering
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Observance of when copyrights expire and works enter into the public domain
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Domain_Day
date created:
2006-05-23T17:27:08Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T06:55:50Z
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