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Newly entering the public domain in 2024 will be: * works by people who died in 1953, for countries with a copyright term of "life plus 70 years" (e.g. UK, Russia, most of EU and South America); * works by people who died in 1973, for countries with a term of "life plus 50 years" (e.g. New Zealand, and most of Africa and Asia); * films and books (incl. artworks featured) published in 1928 for the United States. In our advent-style calendar below, find our top pick of what lies in store for 2024. Each day, as we move through December, we'll open a new window to reveal our highlights! By public domain day on January 1st they will all be unveiled -- look out for a special blogpost from us on that day. (And, of course, if you want to dive straight in and explore the vast swathe of new entrants for yourself, just visit the links above). 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Du Bois's Dark Princess Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content9 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content Dylan Thomas Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content26 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content5 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's contentD. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content17 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content Andre Breton's Nadja Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content31 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content Wyndham Lewis's The Childermass: Section I Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content18 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content Cecil Hepworth Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content1 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's contentWalt Disney's Steamboat Willie Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content29 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's contentH. G. Wells's The Open Conspiracy Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content3 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's contentJ. R. R. Tolkien Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content23 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content22 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content14 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content Siegfried Sassoon's Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content20 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's contentNan Shepherd's The Quarry Wood Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content19 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content Evelyn Waugh's Decline and Fall Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content10 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's contentThe Passion of Joan of Arc directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content4 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content Virginia Woolf's Orlando: A Biography Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content24 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content Hilaire Belloc Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content13 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content Federico Garcia Lorca's Gypsy Ballads Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content27 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content Django Reinhardt Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content28 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content6 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content Edmund Dulac Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content15 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's contentHank Williams Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content11 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's contentA. A. Milne's The House at Pooh Corner Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content25 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content Selma Lagerlof's Anna Svard Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content16 Crop of imagery to be revealed in details about the day's content October: Ten Days That Shook the World directed by Sergei Eisenstein * Check out John Mark Ockerbloom's own "Public Domain Day Countdown" on Mastodon, and summarised in his blogpost. * Read more about what makes the public domain so important in Communia's Public Domain Manifesto. * Wondering if "bad things happen to works when they enter the public domain"? Wonder no more. The Public Domain Review The Public Domain Review is registered in the UK as a Community Interest Company (#11386184), a category of company which exists primarily to benefit a community or with a view to pursuing a social purpose, with all profits having to be used for this purpose. 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