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Under the [[Copyright Term Extension Act]], [[1923 in literature|books]], [[1923 in film|films]], and other works published in the United States in 1923 entered the public ___domain in 2019.<ref>{{cite web |title=Copyright and the Public Domain |publisher=Public Domain Information Project |url=http://www.pdinfo.com/Copyright-Law/Copyright-Law.php |accessdate=2015-12-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140801121535/http://www.pdinfo.com/Copyright-Law/Copyright-Law.php |archive-date=2014-08-01 |url-status = dead}}</ref> Additionally, unpublished works whose authors died in 1948 entered the public ___domain. Foreign works from 1923 that were never published in the United States may be in the public ___domain as well.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://copyright.cornell.edu/publicdomain#Footnote_12|title=Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States {{!}} Copyright Information Center|website=copyright.cornell.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-04-25}}</ref> This was the first time since January 1, 1998, that a new group of works entered the public ___domain in the United States. From now on, works governed by the [[Copyright Act of 1909]] will enter the public ___domain at the end of the 95th calendar year from publication. For example, 1924 works entered the public ___domain on January 1, 2020, 1925 works in 2021, and so forth.
No United States audio recordings entered the public ___domain (as those fixed before February 15, 1972 were covered by state laws only), but international audio recordings published in 1923 entered the public ___domain in 2019. Under the [[Music Modernization Act]], 1923 domestic audio recordings
Some of the works that entered public ___domain are ''The Great American Novel'' by [[William Carlos Williams]], Charlie Chaplin's ''[[The Pilgrim (1923 film)|The Pilgrim]]'', Harold Lloyd's ''[[Safety Last!]]'', [[Robert Frost]]'s ''[[Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening]]'', [[Kahlil Gibran]]'s ''[[The Prophet (book)|The Prophet]]'', ''[[The Murder on the Links]]'' by [[Agatha Christie]], [[Cecil B. DeMille]]’s ''[[The Ten Commandments (1923 film)|The Ten Commandments]]'', Aldous Huxley's ''[[Antic Hay]]'', and [[Winston Churchill]]’s ''[[The World Crisis]]''.<ref name="Atlantic April 2018"/> While Christie, Huxley, and Churchill were all non-American authors, these works were also published in the United States and their copyright was registered and renewed.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://exhibits.stanford.edu/copyrightrenewals|title=Copyright Renewals|website=Spotlight at Stanford|language=en|access-date=2018-04-25}}</ref> Hence, copyright expired in 2019.
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