Title

Episode 5: Public Domain

Speakers

Rachel S. Evans, University of Georgia School of Law LibraryFollow
Stephen Wolfson, University of Georgia School of Law LibraryFollow

Release Date

1-15-2019

Episode Length

16:55

Description

In this episode Metadata Services Librarian Rachel Evans interviews Research & Copyright Services Law Librarian Stephen Wolfson. They discuss the growth of the public domain on January 1, 2019 including the law that added 20 years to copyright expiration in 1998, the previous and current copyright durations for U.S. written, visual, and musical works. Wolfson also shares a few well known works from 1923, resources for locating and determining copyright expiration, and digitization efforts of libraries for public domain materials.

Streaming Media

Recommended Citation

Evans, Rachel S. and Wolfson, Stephen, "Episode 5: Public Domain" (2019). On Reserve. 6.
https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/podcasts_onreserve/6

Related Resources

• Duke Law's Center for the Study of Public Domain Resource for Public Domain Day 2019
• University of Pennsylvania's Copyright Registration and Renewal Records
• Stanford University's Copyright Renewal Database