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As they do every year, unfortunately, the good folks at the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke have put together a depressing list of what should have entered the public domain yesterday. As you hopefully know, until 1978, the maximum...

OK. We told you it wasn't complete. No single article could hold all the movies filmed in the Old Dominion, which, incidentally, is never old but always hip. So we forwarded to the editors a suggestion that if "The Godfather" can have three parts,...

Imagine that on today, January 1st, 2014, America adhered to copyright laws from the 1970s.  Specifically, pretend that copyright terms are what they were back then.  Then let’s ask, what cultural works would have entered public domain...

Anna May Wong (1905 – 1961) was the first Chinese American movie star, and the first Asian American actress to gain international recognition. Her long and varied career spanned both silent and sound film, television, stage, and radio. Born near the...

Luise Rainer: Second Best Actress Oscar and the ‘Oscar Curse’ [Please see previous post: "Luise Rainer: Oldest Surviving Oscar Winner Turns 103."] The following year, Luise Rainer was back on the Academy Awards’ roster, this time for playing a Chinese...