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Category:U.S. prior to 1923 public domain art. Appearance. Wikimedia Commons has media related to PD-Art (PD-US-expired). Images in this category are works of art published in the United States before 1929. If the person or organization who digitized it has released it under another license, list that other license as well as this one.
In the past, a work would enter the public domain in the United States if it was released without a copyright notice. This was true prior to March 1, 1989, but is no longer the case. Any work (of certain, enumerated types) now receives copyright as soon as it is fixed in a tangible medium.
The copyright law of the United States grants monopoly protection for "original works of authorship". [ 1][ 2] With the stated purpose to promote art and culture, copyright law assigns a set of exclusive rights to authors: to make and sell copies of their works, to create derivative works, and to perform or display their works publicly.
All motion pictures made and exhibited before 1929 are indisputably in the public domain in the United States. This date will move forward one year, every year, meaning that films released in 1929 will enter the public domain in 2025, films from 1930 in 2026, and so on, concluding with films from 1977 entering the public domain in 2073.
A public-domain book is a book with no copyright, a book that was created without a license, or a book where its copyrights expired [17] or have been forfeited. [clarification needed] [18] In most countries the term of protection of copyright expires on the first day of January, 70 years after the death of the latest living author.
Music Modernization Act (MMA) of 2018 – Modernized copyright-related issues for music and other audio recordings to address technological developments such as digital streaming. Title II of the MMA, the CLASSICS Act, preempted state copyright laws for sound recordings made before February 15, 1972.
A work of art that exists in only one copy, such as a painting or statue, is not regarded as published when the single existing copy is sold or offered for sale in the traditional way, for example, through an art dealer, gallery, or auction house. A statue erected in a public place is not necessarily published.
{{PD-US-expired-abroad}}: for images first published outside of the U.S. before 1928 For images of pre-1928 foreign postage stamps use {{Stamp-PD-US-1923-abroad}} {}: for images first published outside of the U.S. from 1928 to 1977 (inclusive), but PD in the foreign source country on January 1, 1996. For the precise rules, see the template text