On January 1, 2021, works from 1925 (finally) enter the U.S. public domain. They include F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, silent films featuring Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton, and music including the jazz standard Sweet Georgia Brown and songs by Gertrude “Ma” Rainey. See what will be open to all on our annual site!

Find out more in this video about the Public Domain!

What COULD have been entering the US public domain in 2021? Under the law that existed until 1978, we’d be getting works from 1964. Read more about it here.