Copyrights for thousands of classics expire New Year's Day, allowing them to be sampled without permission or cost.
December 31, 2021 / 2:03 PM"Winnie the Pooh" and"The Sun Also Rises" are going public. A.A. Milne's beloved children's book and Ernest Hemingway's classic novel, along with films starring Buster Keaton and Greta Garbo, are among the works from 1926 whose copyrights will expire Saturday, putting them in the public domain as the calendar flips to 2022.
The silent films"Battling Butler" starring and directed by Buster Keaton,"The Temptress" starring Greta Garbo,"The Son of the Sheik" starring Rudolph Valentino, and"For Heaven's Sake" starring Harold Lloyd are also becoming public property. The long U.S. copyright period adopted in recent decades has meant that many works that would now become available have long since been lost because they were not profitable to maintain by the legal owners yet couldn't be used by others.
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