It’s that time again! We celebrate Public Domain Day each year as many countries welcome new works into their public domain when the copyrights for those works expire on January 1st.
Read our blog post on the public domain and its cultural importance, and visit these sites around the Web for more coverage of Public Domain Day 2015 and the works entering the public domain for various countries around the world:
- The Public Domain Review: Class of 2015 by the Open Knowledge Foundation
- Public Domain Day: January 1, 2015 — For Other Eyes Only from the Duke Law Center for the Study of the Public Domain
- 2015 in Public Domain Day from Wikipedia
- PublicDomainDay.org from COMMUNIA
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By Jessica Meindertsma, Rights Management Specialist at the Copyright Resources Center, The Ohio State University Libraries
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