Public Domain Drop 2022

On January 1, the public domain welcomed a new group of works that includes A.A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh, Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises and Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, as well as writings from Dorothy Parker, William Faulkner, Langston Hughes and more. Plus, for the first time, hundreds of thousands of sound recordings from before 1923 will also be included. Jennifer Jenkins, director of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain, highlights some of the newly public works and explains what it all means.