What enters the Public Domain in 2023

Public Domain Day was January 1st of this new year, and the list of notable works now free of copyright includes works from Hemingway, Wolff, Wharton, the complete Sherlock Holmes from Arthur Conan Doyle along with the children's classic Goodnight Moon. Also now in the Public Domain are some great old music like Puttin’ on the Ritz and some great films. Films of historical significance that are now in the public domain are Metropolis, and The Jazz Singer which was the first film with sound...it ushered in the new era of talkies and made silent films seem obsolete. All of the film studios had to adapt quickly and incorporate sound. Another great film that enters the public domain is Wings, and this film was the first to win the Acadamy Award for the film of the year.

Listed below are just a few selections of works to enter the public domain in 2023:

Books

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

The Tower Treasure (The Hardy Boys, #1) by Franklin W. Dixon

The House on the Cliff (The Hardy Boys, #2) by Franklin W. Dixon

The Secret of the Old Mill (The Hardy Boys, #3) by Franklin W. Dixon

The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder

Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway

Aspects of the Novel by E.M. Forester

The Colour Out of Space by H.P. Lovecraft

Twilight Sleep by Edith Wharton

Mosquitoes by William Faulkner

The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes / But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes by Anita Loos

Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Wolff

The Big Four by Agatha Christie

Amerika by Franz Kafka

The Gangs of New York by Herbert Asbury

The Future of an Illusion by Sigmund Freud

Modern Chess Openings by Richard Clevin Griffith and John Herbet White

The Daughters of Time by Josephine Tey

Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes,” by Arthur Conan Doyle

Le Temps retrouvé by Marcel Proust (in French)

The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder

Films

The Jazz Singer

Chicago

When Boys Leave Home

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Wings

Tarzan and the Golden Lion

The King of Kings, directed by Cecil B. DeMille

The Battle of the Century, starring Laurel and Hardy

The Lodger, a film by Alfred Hitchcock

Metropolis, a film by Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou

Musical Compositions

“Back Water Blues,” “Preaching the Blues” and “Foolish Man Blues” (Bessie Smith)

“The Best Things in Life Are Free,” from the musical “Good News” (George Gard “Buddy” De Sylva, Lew Brown, Ray Henderson)

“Billy Goat Stomp,” “Hyena Stomp” and “Jungle Blues” (Ferdinand Joseph Morton)

“Black and Tan Fantasy” and “East St. Louis Toodle-O” (Bub Miley, Duke Ellington)

“Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man” and “Ol’ Man River,” from the musical “Show Boat” (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern)

“Diane” (Erno Rapee, Lew Pollack)

“Funny Face” and “’S Wonderful,” from the musical “Funny Face” (Ira and George Gershwin)

“(I Scream You Scream, We All Scream for) Ice Cream” (Howard Johnson, Billy Moll, Robert A. King)

“Mississippi Mud” (Harry Barris, James Cavanaugh)

“My Blue Heaven” (George Whiting, Walter Donaldson)

“Potato Head Blues” and Gully Low Blues” (Louis Armstrong)

“Puttin’ on the Ritz” (Irving Berlin)

“Rusty Pail Blues,” “Sloppy Water Blues” and “Soothin’ Syrup Stomp” (Thomas Waller)

There are more music and sound recordings in the public domain than I've listed and you can see more  at this link PD Info 

More information about works in the Public Domain can be found at this link  Center for the Study of the Public Domain. This link also has links to archived lists of works that entered the public domain in previous years.

Word of the Year from 2022

Already several weeks into the new year it is time to reflect on the year before and what was known as the word of the year from 2022.

The Oxford English Dictionary’s 2022 word of the year is - Goblin mode

‘Goblin mode’ – a slang term, often used in the expressions ‘in goblin mode’ or ‘to go goblin mode’ – is ‘a type of behaviour which is unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy, typically in a way that rejects social norms or expectations.’

Dictionary.com’s word of the year for 2022 is woman.

woman [ woom–uhn ]

noun

1. an adult female person.

Merriam-Webster’s word of the year for 2022 is a curious one in gaslighting. If you're curious as to what that exactly means their definition is as follows.

Gaslight​ing

1 of 2

noun

Gaslight​ing

1: psychological manipulation of a person usually over an extended period of time that causes the victim to question the validity of their own thoughts, perception of reality, or memories and typically leads to confusion, loss of confidence and self-esteem, uncertainty of one's emotional or mental stability, and a dependency on the perpetrator.

2: the act or practice of grossly misleading someone, especially for one's own advantage.

These words and phrases topped all related searches and were frequently used in media and print.

I’m a little surprised by these choices and they were not ones that I used more or out of the ordinary as compared with others. I would have thought that omicron would have topped someone’s list. 

Out of curiosity is there a word or phrase that you would have picked instead of these?