January 31, 2019, 9:00-5:00 p.m., Sargent Hall, 120 Tremont Street, Boston
Public Domain Day, so-sponsored with the Suffolk University Law School.
In January 2019, for the first time since the passage of the Copyright Term Extension Act in 1998, works will enter the public domain in the United States due to the expiration of the copyright term. This event celebrates the legal and public policy rationale behind copyright limits and the public domain, as well as the creativity of those individuals whose works will soon enter the public domain. We’ll be talking about Virginia Woolf, Charlie Chaplin, Man Ray, Hemingway, the future of copyright law and much more. Speakers include Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Cunningham and Professor Lawrence Lessig, public domain advocate and founder of Creative Commons.
