Public Domain Day 2025 Theme. On january 1, 2025, a new crop of creative works from 1929 (along with sound recordings from 1924), will enter the public domain in the united states, unlocking countless possibilities for. Works by people who died in 1974, for countries with a term of “life plus 50 years” (e.g.

This is an update to our earlier articles on public domain day here and here. Set between late 1925 and late 1927, the novel takes up the the.