On January 1, 2020, works from 1924 (finally) enter the public domain. They include George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” and “Fascinating Rhythm,” silent films by Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, and Thomas Mann’s “The Magic Mountain,” E. M. Forster’s “A Passage to India,” and A. A. Milne’s “When We Were Very Young.” These works were supposed to go into the US public domain in 2000, after being copyrighted for 75 years. But before this could happen, Congress hit a 20-year pause button and extended their copyright term to 95 years. See what will be open to all on our annual site. But‚Ķwhat COULD have been entering the US public domain in 2020? Under the law that existed until 1978, we’d be getting works from 1963.