From the Earth to the Moon, starring Joseph Cotten, George Sanders, and Debra Paget.The Defiant Ones, starring Sidney Poitier, Tony Curtis, and Theodore Bikel.Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, and Burl Ives.The Blob, sci-fi/horror classic starring Steve McQueen in his first leading role.Auntie Mame, starring Rosalind Russell, Coral Browne, Roger Smith, and Peggy Cass.Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, a low-budget horror/sci-fi cult hit.Here are a few of the movies that we won’t see in the public domain for another 39 years.
#GIGI 1958 SOUNDTRACK FREE#
Libraries and archivists would be free to digitize and preserve them.
#GIGI 1958 SOUNDTRACK FULL#
(There are certainly some fantastic candidates.) Community theaters could show the full features. Fans could share clips with friends or incorporate them into homages. Instead of seeing these literary works enter the public domain in 2015, we will have to wait until 2054.Ĭonsider the variety of films from 1958 that would have become available this year. That is how the public domain feeds creativity. (Google Books has brought us closer to this reality, but for copyrighted books where there is no separate agreement with the copyright holder, it only shows three short snippets, not the whole book.) You could use these books in your own stories- The Once and Future King was free to draw upon Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur (a compilation of King Arthur legends) because Malory’s work was in the public domain. (Empirical studies have shown that public domain books are less expensive, available in more editions and formats, and more likely to be in print-see here, here, and here.) Imagine a digital Library of Alexandria containing all of the world’s books from 1958 and earlier, where, thanks to technology, you can search, link, annotate, copy and paste. You could read them online or buy cheaper print editions, because others were free to republish them. You would be free to translate these books into other languages, create Braille or audio versions for visually impaired readers (if you think that publishers wouldn’t object to this, you would be wrong), or adapt them for theater or film. What a trove of books-imagine these being freely available to students and educators around the world. Seuss, Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories
Martin Luther King, Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery StoryĬlaude Lévi-Strauss, Anthropologie Structurale ( Structural Anthropology) 2ĭr. John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Societyĭr. Michael Bond, A Bear Called Paddington, with illustrations by Peggy FortnumĮugene Burdick and William Lederer, The Ugly American Simone de Beauvoir, Mémoires d’une jeune fille rangée ( Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter) Isaac Asimov (writing as Paul French), Lucky Starr and the Rings of Saturn What books and plays would be entering the public domain if we had the pre-1978 copyright laws? You might recognize some of the titles below. The laws in other countries are different-thousands of works are entering the public domain in Canada and the EU on January 1. 1 And no published works will enter our public domain until 2019.
Under those laws, works published in 1958 would enter the public domain on January 1, 2015, where they would be “free as the air to common use.” Under current copyright law, we’ll have to wait until 2054. But prior to the 1976 Copyright Act (which became effective in 1978), the maximum copyright term was 56 years-an initial term of 28 years, renewable for another 28 years. The films Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Gigi, the books Things Fall Apart, Our Man in Havana, and The Once and Future King, great music, and more. . .Ĭurrent US law extends copyright for 70 years after the date of the author’s death, and corporate “works-for-hire” are copyrighted for 95 years after publication. What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2015?
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