[MUSIC PLAYING] >>Hi, I'm Laura Quilter.
I am the Copyright and Information Policy Librarian here at the
University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.
We are excited for January 1, 2019 because it is Public Domain Day.
It's the day in which copyrighted works i- from a particular year
enter the public domain.
2019 is a particularly exciting Public Domain Day; in fact,
we could call it Public Domain Year because it's the first
time in 20 years that a large volume of works published
in the United States will be entering the public domain.
In fact, everything published in the United States in 1923
will be entering the public domain, um, on January 1, 2019.
In 1998, the Copyright Term Extension Act was passed, and
that extended copyright by 20 years, so works were
copyrighted now from 50 years after the life of the
author to 70 years after the life of the author,
or, in the case of corporate works and many other kinds
of works, from 75 years to 95 years. So, everything
that was published in 1923 has been on lockdown for 20
years; it hasn't entered the public domain when we would
have expected it to have entered the public domain
in 1999, for instance, and so all of those years'
worth of works have remained frozen.
When works enter the public domain, they can be fully
and freely used by anybody; there are no more copyright
restrictions on them. So the public domain is effectively
the- the repository, if you will, sort of the intellectual
repository of everything that humanity has created that is
not being currently locked up under a legal regime that
restricts sharing and copying. So when a work enters the
public domain, when it comes out into the public domain,
it can be reused; it can be distributed; it can be
modified; people can build on it to make new works.
So, for instance, famous works like the statue of Alexander
Hamilton that is in front of the U.S. Treasury will enter
the public domain. It was unveiled in, um, in 1923,
dedicated to the public in 1923, and so it will be
entering the public domain in 2019, be available for
people to scan and to reproduce, um, freely, images
of, you know, our- our latest celebrity founding father.
When works are under copyright but no longer in print or
no longer commercially available, they really fall out of access
to the world, and so in a sense, they- they- they-
they're dead to the world, right? But when they enter the
public domain, they're born again to the world; people can
reuse- can find them and re- and use them, and- and bring
them back into the cultural mainstream at that point, and
so it's really an opportunity for us to celebrate
American culture and American creativity. Um, the first
part of the 20th century was, you know, an amazingly
[SILENT FILM MUSIC PLAYING] um, productive and creative time
in the American world, when jazz was being established,
when film, when recorded music was in its heyday, when there was
creativity from- from all sectors of society, and- and all of the
works that were created in 1923 have been locked up for
20 additional years, and so now, we're going to be able
to celebrate that they're coming back to life.
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