Public Domain Day 2026 | Duke University School of Law
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January 1, 2026 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1930 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1925! By Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle[1] CC BY 4.0 Please note that this site is only about US law; the copyright terms in other countries are different.[2] On January 1, 2026, thousands of copyrighted works from 1930 enter the US public domain, along with sound recordings from 1925.
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Original Title: Tomorrow is Public Domain Day in the United States. Copyright expires on films published in 1930 including Oscar winners All Quiet on the Western Front, Cimarron, The Marx Brothers’ Animal Crackers, Howard Hughes’ Hell’s Angels, Anna Christie and The Blue Angel.