Public Domain Day 2014

An anonymous reader writes "What could have been entering the public domain in the US on January 1, 2014? Under the law that existed until 1978.... Works from 1957. The books On The Road, Atlas Shrugged, Empire of the Atom, and The Cat in the Hat, the films The Incredible Shrinking Man, The Bridge on the River Kwai, and 12 Angry Men, the article "Theory of Superconductivity," the songs "All Shook Up" and "Great Balls of Fire," and more.... What is entering the public domain this January 1? Not a single published work."

Comments

It's for the best

[Anonymous Coward]

See, if those works had entered the public domain, the private owners would never profit off of them.

And that's very important you know. Look how much money that Atlas Shrugged movie made for Ayn Rand!

Re:It's for the best

[Anonymous Coward]

Please take your Socialist bullshit somewhere else. Without Atlas Shrugged, we would not have nearly the same amount of stiff resistance to the current administrations redistributionist anti-business agenda.

it keeps us safe

[Anonymous Coward]

At least we are safe from a bunch of pseudo-libertarian amateur filmmakers creating their own personal "Atlas Shrugged" movies.

Re:it keeps us safe

[crunchygranola]

Yes, we must leave this to the professional film makers who absolutely did not release two nearly unwatchable Atlas Shrugged movies already...

They are simply being true to their source material. An unreadable book should translate to an unwatchable movie.

Re:News Alert! Sonny Bono is dead!

[Rob the Bold]

He's buried here..

You can go and hire Ms. Cleo and do a seance and complain to him since he sponsored the legislation.

See, even the trees opposed copyright extension.

Re:So who's got a torrent?

[DutchUncle]

Did you just violate copyright on the Bible??????