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New Works Enter The Public Domain in 2023 by Irving Berlin, Duke Ellington, Virginia Woolf, and More!
January 1, 2023 was Public Domain Day, the day each year when copyrights expire and new works enter the public domain. The “Progress Clause” of the U.S. Constitution established the legal basis for federal copyright law, and it did so in order to encourage the progress of our society, to incentivize the creation of new works that would eventually enrich the public domain and be accessible to everyone. So each work entering the public domain is an example of...