Name: Works that are public domain in 2020
Uploaded: 01-03-2020
Duration: 6:27
Description: The Library of Congress has a full list of copyrighted works from 1924.

Here are some top highlights of this year's batch in the public domain.

January 1 is Public Domain Day! After a 20-year wait, works published in 1924 are (finally) entering the US public domain. See what will be open to all https://t.co/Lq73fvodfh pic.twitter.com/kk9k5oq8bF
— Public Domain Center (@DukeCSPD) December 30, 2019

Music Compositions

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CBS via Getty Images

PHOTO: George Gershwin, composer and pianist, at home in New York on Sept. 1, 1934.

\"It Had to Be You\"
\"Rhapsody in Blue\" by George Gershwin
\"Lazy\" by Irving Berlin
\"Jealous Hearted Blues\" by Cora \"Lovie\" Austin
\"Nobody’s Sweetheart.\" music by Billy Meyers and Elmer Schoebel, lyrics by Gus Kahn and Ernie Erdman
\"California, Here I Come” by Al Jolson

Film

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Archive Photos via Getty Images

PHOTO: Harold Lloyd is packed in a crowded train in a scene from the film "Girl Shy," 1924.

\"Peter Pan\" the first film adaptation of the book by James Matthew Barrie
Buster Keaton's \"Sherlock, Jr.\" and \"The Navigator\"
Harold Lloyd's \"Girl Shy\" and \"Hot Water\"
The 1924 film adaptation of \"Dante’s Inferno\"

Literature

\"The Box-Car Children,\" first book in the series by Gertrude Chandler Warner
\"The Dream\" by H. G. Wells
\"The Man in the Brown Suit\" by Agatha Christie
\"When We Were Very Young\" by A. A. Milne
\"Old New York novellas\" by Edith Wharton
\"Tarzan and the Ant Men\" by Edgar Rice Burroughs
\"Billy Budd\" by Herman Melville

The full Catalog of Copyright entries from the Library of Congress can be seen here.

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