The Center announces the publication of the fifth edition of an Open Coursebook, Intellectual Property: Law & the Information Society—Cases and Materials. The book is an introduction to U.S. intellectual property law written and edited by the Center's Faculty...
The CSPD’s work generated an incredible amount of interest again in 2025. Here are some highlights: CBS Saturday Morning, NPR’s Morning Edition, Associated Press, NPR digital, LA Times, Smithsonian, Mashable, and Marketplace. CSPD Director Jennifer Jenkins joins Lee...
On January 1, 2025, works from 1929 enter the U.S. public domain, along with sound recordings from 1924. They include The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, and A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf. In film, Mickey Mouse...
The CSPD’s work was featured in over 2500 media stories, including CBS news, NPR’s Morning Edition, stories in the Associated Press, Variety, The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Marketplace, The Wall Street Journal, and the BBC, WBUR’s Here...
Planet Money travels into the public domain to find their very own superhero, with the help of CSPD Director Jennifer Jenkins!
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...
Read or listen to stories about Public Domain Day as covered by Morning Edition, Smithsonian Magazine, and NPR Arts & Life.
On December 17, 2020, the Center joined the Internet Archive, Wikimedia Foundation, Creative Commons, and SPARC to throw a Public Domain Day party.
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The Center for the Study of the Public Domain is pleased to share the Romanian version of Theft! A History of Music. Just released, „Furt: o istorie a muzicii” is a translation made by George Hari Popescu under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license. Mr. Popescu...
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...
CSPD Faculty Co-Director James Boyle serves as Special Editor for this just-released issue of the Duke Law & Technology Review (18 Duke L. & Tech. Rev. 1 (2019)). The symposium includes works by Prof. Boyle, John Perry Barlow, Cory Doctorow, Cindy Cohn,...
On January 1, 2019, works from 1923 will (finally) enter the US public domain! This is the first time in over twenty years that published works have entered our public domain. See what will be freely available in 2019.
CSPD Director Jennifer Jenkins comments to the Smithsonian magazine on the upcoming release of works to the public domain in the United States.
Writing in The Economist, Faculty Co-Director James Boyle discusses the various influences of Garrett Hardin's seminal article, "The Tragedy of the Commons," which first appeared in Science magazine's December 13, 1968, issue.
The Center for the Study of the Public Domain's Faculty Co-Director James Boyle and Director Jennifer Jenkins discuss their graphic novel, Theft! A History of Music, at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.
Center Director Jennifer Jenkins discusses the resumption of works entering the public domain in 2019 and research that the Center is working on about some of those works.
Faculty Co-Director James Boyle discusses open access academic publishing and the potential for free access to change how people create and share ideas.
The Center marks Public Domain Day—when thousands of works enter the public domain around the world—with a celebration of what won’t be entering the public domain in the US.
The book is a graphic novel (aka "comic book") laying out a 2000 year history of musical borrowing from Plato to rap. The comic, by James Boyle, Jennifer Jenkins and the late Keith Aoki is available as a handsome 8.5 x 11″ paperback, and for free download under a...
The Center is pleased to announce a new translation of its educational comic, created by Wolfgang Flechsenhaar, LL.M. Von Gesetzes Wegen? is the sixth translation of the work that we know of. » Lesen Sie das Comic-Buch [Read the comic]
Center Director Jennifer Jenkins reveals the promise and the limits of various attempts to reverse the erosion of the public domain in In Ambiguous Battle: The Promise (and Pathos) of Public Domain Day.
Center Director Jennifer Jenkins talks about copyright term and orphan works in a USA Today column discussing the suit to establish that We Shall Overcome is in the public domain, and highlighting the Center's websites about what could have been in the public domain:...
Professor Jennifer Jenkins, Center Director, discusses the need for balance in educational programs on copyright and fair use for Consumerist.
Professor Jennifer Jenkins, Center Director, comments on American copyright law and Public Domain Day for Quartz.
Faculty Co-Director Arti Rai discusses the possible effects of the Federal Circuit's ruling in this patent case. A three-judge panel invalidated Sequenom's patent in June and the court recently denied the company's petition for reconsideration en banc review.