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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 entered the public ___domain in 2024. However, all sheet music [[1923 in music|published in 1923]] in the United States entered the public ___domain in 2019.

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 the first 2 volumes of [[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|date=14 March 2017 |language=en|access-date=2018-04-25}}</ref> Hence, copyright expired in 2019.

On January 24th 2019 it was announced that [[Nina Paley]] was placing her 2018 film [[Seder-Masochism]] in the public ___domain.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sedermasochism.com/2019/01/02/press-release-seder-masochism-to-go-public-___domain-january-31-2019/|title=PRESS RELEASE: Seder-Masochism to go Public Domain January 31, 2019|website=sedermasochism|date=2 January 2019 |language=en|access-date=2024-11-17}}</ref>

== See also ==