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This confuses me. Don't copyrighted works enter the public domain every year, after the expiration of the set period? And is it only works published in 1923?

MARTHA E BALLINGER

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From: Maps-L: Map Librarians, etc. <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Angela R Cope <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: all works first published in the United States in 1923 will enter the public domain January 1

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/

For the First Time in More Than 20 Years,
 Copyrighted Works Will Enter the Public Domain | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian

www.smithsonianmag.com

Subscribe to Smithsonian magazine now for just $12 This article is a selection from the January/February issue of Smithsonian magazine

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