2022 Copyright Law Public Domain 
Plagiarism Today
JANUARY 5, 2022
On January 1, 2022, works that were first published in the year 1926 lapsed into the public domain. Winnie-the-Pooh is likely the most culturally relevant character to enter the public domain since 2019, when works started entering the public domain again in the United States due to the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.
Plagiarism Today
JANUARY 3, 2022
To that end, 2022 is looking to be a major year for copyright in a myriad of ways. But that raises the question, with the new year what are just a handful of the major copyright stories on the horizon. But that raises the question, with the new year what are just a handful of the major copyright stories on the horizon.
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IP Watchdog
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
You may have heard that on January 1, 2022, Winnie-the-Pooh and the other characters from the Hundred Acre Wood are now in the public domain. But did you know that not all of Christopher Robin’s friends are treated the same in the eyes of copyright law? The characters have multiple authors, including A.A.
Plagiarism Today
JANUARY 3, 2022
3: ‘Pooh,’ ‘Sun Also Rises’ among literary and film works with copyrights expiring in 2022. Finally today, The Associated Press reports that, with the new year, several prominent works are lapsing into the public domain including the Ernest Hemingway novel The Sun Also Rises and A.A.
Chicago-Kent Intellectual Property Journal Blog
APRIL 6, 2022
Disney’s Limiting of the Public Domain Sydney Fenton | April 6th, 2022 Creation of Copyright and the Public Domain On May 31, 1790, the first copyright law was enacted under the new United States Constitution, modeled after Britain’s Statute of Anne.[1]
The IPKat
OCTOBER 11, 2022
Not a copyright dispute … and the non-role of Article 14 of the DSM Directive In sum: the CHC provides a way to control for-profit reproductions of Italian cultural heritage, irrespective of their copyright status (it is in any case worth recalling that under Italian copyright law moral rights protection is … perpetual).
The TTABlog
MARCH 2, 2022
2022 USPQ2d XXX (Fed. 2022) [not precedential]. Barrie's Peter Pan , first staged in 1904, and so the parties were in agreement that under copyright law, both the name and the character are in the public domain. Text Copyright John L. Welch 2022. United Trademark Holdings, Inc.
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