public domain

Last month, for the first time in decades, new copyrighted works entered the public domain and can now be freely accessed and used by anyone. The BTLJ Podcast went to the Internet Archive to find out more about the reopening of the public domain and why it matters.

While it has never topped the charts of the Billboard 100, the Happy Birthday song is arguably one of the most popular songs, if not the most popular song, in history. The Guinness Book of World Records declared it as the most frequently sung in the English language, accompanying other ...

Peter and the Wolf, a symphony written by Sergei Prokofiev in 1936, recently received national attention through the Supreme Court decision of Golan v. Holder. Golan, decided on January 18th, 2012, upheld the constitutionality of Section 514 of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (“URAA”)—a provision that brought the United States ...