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.
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. Milne who first published Winnie-the-Pooh in 1926, and The Walt Disney Company, which brought the stories to the screen. The characters have multiple authors, including A.A.
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Kluwer Copyright Blog
MARCH 11, 2025
Access to videogames, music or films that are not already part of the public domain may be lost forever if the service provider decides to stop offering it. Indeed, intellectual access to works in the public domain, their enjoyment and their use presuppose prior material access to these works.
Dear Rich IP Blog
JANUARY 9, 2023
It was released to the press and has been published in many news outlets attributed to the department. Is it public domain or fair use? Public domain? Other states like Virginia, New York, and Massachusetts (called "open copyright" states) have a policy that makes state documents presumptively public domain.
IPilogue
JULY 15, 2022
The IPilogue previously published about Winnie the Pooh entering the public domain when Ryan Reynolds created a fun viral commercial featuring the iconic original 1926 Winnie the Pooh. Purpose of Public Domain. The still-shots, however, depict Winnie with a red plaid shirt.
Plagiarism Today
JANUARY 3, 2022
First off today, Andrew Albanese at Publishers Weekly Reports that a collection of publishers and authors have secured a default judgement against a piracy service named KISS Library, this one awarding them $7.8 Copyright Law, works lapse into the public domain on January First of the year their copyright expires.
Plagiarism Today
DECEMBER 12, 2022
Whether it’s a movie becoming a holiday classic due to it being (briefly) in the public domain, holiday songs still very much under copyright, multiple legal questions around a children’s classic or some long-running myths that have changed the way people view some of the season’s most important characters, copyright has been a factor.
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