‘Winnie the Pooh,’ Hemingway’s ‘The Sun Also Rises’ and 400,000 sound recordings entered the public domain today
“This helps enable access to cultural materials that might otherwise be lost to history. 1926 was a long time ago. The vast majority of works from 1926 are out of circulation. When they enter the public domain in 2022, anyone can rescue them from obscurity and make them available, where we can all discover, enjoy, and breathe new life into them,” noting how modern-day Shakespeare adaptations wouldn’t be possible if not for the public domain.
Additionally, for the first time thanks to the passage of the Music Modernization Act in 2018, over 400,000 sound recordings from the advent of sound recording technology through 1922 will also enter the public domain. This includes works by Mamie Smith, Al Jolson, Fanny Brice, Ethel Waters and hundreds more.
“On January 1 2022, the gates will open for all of the recordings that have been waiting in the wings,” Jenkins wrote. “Decades of recordings made from the advent of sound recording technology through the end of 1922—estimated at some 400,000 works—will be open for legal reuse.”story, published in 1926 and, nearly a century later, an estimated billion-dollar franchise under Disney’s stewardship.
With Winnie-the-Pooh in the public domain, others would now be able to adapt the character and his friends — but not Tigger, who Milne created in 1928 and still under Disney rule for a few more years — in new works. However, Disney owns the copyright on their version of the Winnie-the-Pooh cartoons, so any adaptations born out of the book entering the public domain can not closely resemble those in the Magic Kingdom.
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