On January 1 a year’s worth of US copyrighted works entered the public domain
On January 1 a year’s worth of US copyrighted works entered the public domain What works might those be, records by the Beatles? Michael Jackson? Not exactly. The 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act extended US copyright protection for most works to 95 years after the date of publication, rounded up to the following new year. Audio recordings get 100 years of protection, so think of early works from Louis Armstro…