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I held off on publishing my annual Public Domain Day for Dorothy Parker work until mid-January. It was for one reason. Mickey. I knew—and we all saw this coming—that everything about the annual release of U.S. protected works in the public domain would be overshadowed by Mickey Mouse. After watching two weeks of stories about…
It is looking to be another big year for Dorothy Parker work entering the public domain. On New Year’s Day will be a bonanza of poems, more than in recent years. More Dorothy Parker poetry and short fiction will enter the public domain in the United States on January 1, 2023, than ever before in…
Today is Public Domain Day and the Dorothy Parker Society is marking the day with the release of a brand-new recording of “Dialogue at Three in the Morning” produced by professional voiceover artist Kimberly M. Wetherell. Today 47 poems and five short stories by Parker enter the public domain in the U.S. This is the…
More Dorothy Parker poetry and short fiction will enter the public domain in the United States on January 1, 2022, than ever before in a single year: 47 poems and five short stories. This is a much higher figure than 2021 when 25 poems had their copyrights expire, or 2020 when the number was only…
Due to the strange machinations of U.S. copyright law, on January 1, 2020, more works of art, film, music, poetry, and writing will enter the public domain. This milestone will bring out work published in 1924 that copyrights have been lifted. Dorothy Parker makes the list with a few gems published 96 years ago, including…