Public Domain 2025
Harrison shares some notable works that entered the public domain on January 1, 2025. The art, literature, music, and films of the 1920s are now in the public domain Dancing skeletons, several famous novels, and a sleazy Mickey Mouse are now free to use and re-use!
In this episode:
"Ain't Misbehavin'" (Razaf, Waller, Brooks)
"Blackmail" directed by Alfred Hitchcock
"A Farewell to Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
"The Maltese Falcon" by Dashiell Hammett
"A Room of One's Own" by Virginia Woolf
"Singin' in the Rain" (Freed, Brown)
"The Skeleton Dance" directed by Ub Iwerks
"The Sound and the Fury" by…
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