What Could Have Been Entering the Public Domain on January 1, 2012?

Rebloggato da infoneer-pulse

What other works would be entering the public domain if we had the pre-1978 copyright laws? You might recognize some of the titles below.

Rudolf Flesch’s Why Johnny Can’t Read: And What You Can Do About It

J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Return of the King, the final installment in his Lord of Rings trilogy

The Family of Man, Edward Steichen’s book of photographs showing the diversity and universality of human experience

Michihiko Hachiya’s Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 8–September 30, 1945, translated by Warner Wells, md

Evelyn Waugh’s Officers and Gentlemen, the second book in his Sword of Honour trilogy

The first English translation of Thomas Mann’s last novel, Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man: The Early Years (1954), by Denver Lindley

C.S. Lewis’ The Magician’s Nephew, the sixth volume his The Chronicles of Narnia

Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita

Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee’s play about the Scopes “Monkey Trial,” Inherit the Wind

» via Center for the Study of the Public Domain

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