Category: historical

Refined by: (Author) Anandashankar Mazumdar

A cartoon hourglass is in the center of a blue background. Light shines out on both sides. On the left inside the light are three grey circles. One has a white music note icon, another has an open book icon, and the third has a movie roll icon. On the right in the light are three colored circle. The red circle contains the note icon, the blue circle contains the book icon, and the yellow circle contains a play button icon.

The Lifecycle of Copyright: 1925 Works Enter the Public Domain

January 29, 2021

On January 1, a new raft of creative works of expression entered the public domain in the United States. The term of copyright has ended for works published or registered in 1925, which now join pre-1924 works already in the public domain and available for use by everyone without restrictions. Expiration of copyright term is …

Posted in: Copyright, historical, music

Photographic illustration combining image of facade of court, text of Constitution and Copyright Office 150th anniversary graphics

Historic Court Cases That Helped Shape Scope of Copyright Protections

September 9, 2020

Posted by: Anandashankar Mazumdar

As the Copyright Office celebrates its 150th birthday, we can look back more than 240 years through the history of copyright protections in the United States to see how the law has changed in response to changing technologies and economics. The authors of the U.S. Constitution believed that copyright was important enough to explicitly grant …

Posted in: Copyright, court cases, historical, photography, Supreme Court

Refined by: (Author) Anandashankar Mazumdar