2015 has already begun and with it many expectations and new things. Something that we normally ignore and is important is the list of works that pass into the Public Domain, a state that even if the law is changed, it must always be complied with and in many countries as in Interesting works have been released in the United States that will surely affect the literary world and also the world of ebooks.
Agatha Christie, Martin Luther King Jr. Isaac Asimov or Claude Lévi-Strauss are some of the authors that we will have the pleasure of rereading during this year and also in different formats, languages and all for free since in ebook format you do not have to pay for them, since They are in the Public Domain.
The list has been published on Duke University Center for the Study of the Public Domain, publishing not only the list of literary works but also the list of songs and cinematography that has been released this year under this license, if you are more curious you can consult it here
List of works and authors that pass into the Public Domain
- Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
- Hannah Arendt The human condition
- Issac Asimov, Lucky Starr and the Rings of Saturn
- Simone deBeauvoir, Memoirs of a formal young woman
- Michael Bond A bear named Paddington, with illustrations by Peggy Fortnum
- Eugene Burdick and William Lederer, The ugly american
- T. H. White, Camelot
- Dr Seuss, Yertle the turtle and other stories
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., The Montgomery Story: Step to Freedom.
- John Kenneth Galbraith Affluent society
- Graham Greene, Our man in Havana
- Mary Renault, The king must die
- Truman Capote Breakfast at Tiffany's
- Claude Levi-Strauss Structural anthropology
- Christie Agatha, Tragic innocence
These works are already in the Public Domain in the United States and in some other countries, remember that the intellectual property law is not the same in all countries and while in Spain the period is usually much longer, in the United States it is 56 years . Even so, this will give us the opportunity to obtain incredible new adventures or simply enjoy the academic texts of Luther King or Lévi-Strauss. Be that as it may, we all win even though many insist otherwise.Do not you think?
Sorry to say but the writer of this article has done a terrible job of translation.
The original note says that these are works that WOULD have been part of the public domain beginning in 2015 IF THE law had not been changed in 1976.
All the works mentioned here will actually be free for the public domain in 2054 sadly.