Many small publishing companies get their start by taking public domain e-books and selling them on Apple, Amazon and Kobo. Many of these titles all have to same cover art and do not stand out.

It's January, and for people in the US, that means the same thing it's meant every January since 2019: a new batch of previously copyrighted works have entered the public domain.

"Any time you put images out in the public domain, you lose control over what happens to those images," said Jessa Lingel, an assistant professor of communication at the University of Pennsylvania ...

Cecil Hepworth (entering public domain in countries with copyright of “life plus 70 years”) J. R. R. Tolkien (entering public domain in countries with copyright of “life plus 50 years”) ...

Public Domain Review has a “ Class of 2016 ” featuring 11 cultural figures who died in 1945 or 65 whose work is going out of copyright outside of the United States, including T. S. Eliot, Le ...

Art & Exhibitions See Masterpieces of 20th-Century Art That Just Entered the Public Domain (Because, Hey, Now We Can Reproduce Them!) The copyrights of numerous works of art from 1923 expired on ...

KELLY: Which means art from 1923 will be released next year, 1924, the year after, and so on. Duke law professor Jennifer Jenkins says having art in the public domain is essential to making new art.