2023 in American public ___domain

Under the Copyright Term Extension Act, books published in 1927, films released in 1927, and other works published in 1927, entered the public ___domain in 2023. Unpublished works whose authors died in 1952 entered the public ___domain.

2023 in American public ___domain
The Jazz Singer, the first feature-length film with synchronized sound, became public ___domain in 2023.[1]
Nickname	Public Domain Day
Date(s)	January 1, 2023 (2023-01-01)
Frequency	Annually
Country	United States
Previous event	2022 in American public ___domain
Next event	2024 in American public ___domain

Films

• Metropolis^[2]
• The Battle of the Century
• The Jazz Singer
• Wings
• London After Midnight
• Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
• Napoléon
• The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (Alfred Hitchcock)
• Walt Disney's first 9 Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons
• It^[2]

Literature

• Allan and the Ice-gods by H. Rider Haggard
• Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather^[2]
• To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
• Steppenwolf (Hermann Hesse)
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Thornton Wilder)
• Show Boat (Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern)
• The original versions of the first three books of The Hardy Boys^[2]
• The last two short stories in the Canon of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle) ^[2][3]
• Fables (Bill Willingham, released by author)^[4]

Music

• The Best Things in Life Are Free by George Gard De Sylva, Lew Brown, and Ray Henderson; from the musical Good News^[2]
• Potato Head Blues & Gully Low Blues by Louis Armstrong^[2]
• Mississippi Mud by Harry Barris and James Cavanaugh^[2]
• Back Water Blues, Preaching the Blues, Foolish Man Blues by Bessie Smith^[2]
• Oedipus rex by Igor Stravinsky
• The New Moon by Sigmund Romberg and Oscar Hammerstein II
• Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1927 revision) by Albert von Tilzer and Jack Norworth

References

1. Magazine, Smithsonian; Wexler, Ellen (29 December 2022). "These Works Are Now in the Public Domain". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 2 January 2024.
2. "Public Domain Day 2023". Duke University School of Law. Archived from the original on 4 January 2023. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
3. "Film & Television Licensing". Official Website of the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Family Estate. Archived from the original on 17 December 2022. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
4. Wood, Robert (2023-09-14). ""I Can't Afford to Sue DC": Fables Creator Releases Hit Comic Series into Public Domain (Including Wolf Among Us)". ScreenRant. Retrieved 2023-09-14.