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COLLECTOR dielinfinite private msg quote post Address this user
I thought the board might appreciate the info in this video about new works entering the Public Domain in 2025



For those without the time or inclination to watch the video, the list includes:


Popeye, Tin Tin, and Tarzan, as they appeared in their 1929 comic strips

the novels A Farewell to Arms, A Room of One’s Own, The Sound and the Fury, The Maltese Falcon, and the first English language translation of All Quiet on the Western Front

the stage play Rope (later adapted by Alfred Hitchcock)

films include Hitchcock’s Blackmail, The Black Watch by John Ford, Dynamite by Cecil B De Mille, The Wild Party, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, Atlantic, The Cocoanuts by the Marx Brothers, Welcome Danger by Harold Lloyd, Spite Marriage by Buster Keaton, Pandora’s Box and Diary of a Lost Girl starring Louise Brooks, Un Chien Andalou (which anyone who has been to a film school class would remember), Woman in the Moon by Fritz Lang, Hallelujah (the first major studio film with an all-black cast), On With the Show (the first all-color talkie), The Hollywood Revue (featuring the debut of the song Singin’ in the Rain, which is now also Public Domain)

Sound recordings of What is this thing Called Love by Cole Porter, Waitin’ on a Train by Jimmie Rogers, and Happy Days are Here Again by Milton Ager and Jack Yellen
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past performance is no guarantee of future actions. KatKomics private msg quote post Address this user
Ooooo....Buster Keaton and Marx Brothers - gold!!!!
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You do know that the new guy brings the donuts, right? DWeeB1967 private msg quote post Address this user
@KatKomics Agreed and Harold Lloyd's no slouch, either.
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Not trying to be an ass since February 12, 2020. HulkSmash private msg quote post Address this user
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Originally Posted by DWeeB1967
@KatKomics Agreed and Harold Lloyd's no slouch, either.
Lloyd is fantastic slapstick. Is it true licensing was limited by the family because they wanted personal use only for his films or something like that? I just vaguely remember some hubbub between my dad and aunt when a dvd box set was released many years ago.
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