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Earlier this month, hundreds of thousands of creative works entered the public domain. “They were supposed to go into the public domain in 2003, after being copyrighted for 75 years,” notes a web page from https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2023/.

This year, all works created before Jan. 1, 1928, have entered the public domain.

Public domain films, songs, and publications are now all free to share and to copy — “without permission or fee…

Duke notes that Metropolis actually entered the public domain in 1955 — but then returned to copyrighted status under new legislation passed in 1996.