Hoping you will have a holy, happy, and healthy 2020. I have a new challenge in 2020. For my Toastmasters Club I need to maintain a “compelling” blog and post at least 8 times this month. My focus will continue to be books and anything related to books. Here we go with the first post.
This morning I found an interesting article on the important subject of “public domain” for all you avid readers of the classics. What is public domain, some of you may be wondering. It is related to copyright. Copyright protection of a literary, artistic, or musical work in the United States lasts 95 years. A number of books, as well as films and music, that were copyrighted in 1924 are now copyright free as of January 1, 2020. This means that these classics can be legally accessed, remixed, and republished by the general public. Full text of the books will now be available on Internet Archive, HathiTrust, and Google Books, not just snippets of the books.
Some books in the article are listed here:
- Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
- Agatha Christie, The Man in the Brown Suit
- E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
- Eugene O’Neill, Desire Under the Elms
Will you be reading any of these books? 📚 I have long been a fan of Agatha Christie. That’s the one I would love to access.
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