At midnight on New Year’s Eve, all works first published in the United States in 1923 will enter the public domain. It has been 21 years since the last mass expiration of copyright in the U.S. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/first-time-20-years-copyrighted-works-enter-public-domain-180971016/ [https://thumbs-prod.si-cdn.com/LhT24b3uZ0GojHNKwrZ0CVNNgcE=/1072x720/filters:no_upscale():focal(4929x3569:4930x3570)/https://public-media.si-cdn.com/filer/d9/b7/d9b7f6f4-a859-42fc-bff6-74c7c7798ab4/janfeb2019_l68_prologue.jpg]<https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/first-time-20-years-copyrighted-works-enter-public-domain-180971016/> For the First Time in More Than 20 Years, Copyrighted Works Will Enter the Public Domain | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian<https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/first-time-20-years-copyrighted-works-enter-public-domain-180971016/> www.smithsonianmag.com Subscribe to Smithsonian magazine now for just $12 This article is a selection from the January/February issue of Smithsonian magazine Angie Cope AGS Library, UW Milwaukee Libraries 2311 E. Hartford Avenue Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53211 <http://www.uwm.edu/libraries>http://uwm.edu/libraries/agsl/ M-F 8:00am-4:30pm [log in to unmask] (414)229-6282 43°03'8"N 87°57'21"W [1505846149570_image001.png]