{"id":6273,"date":"2026-01-01T12:15:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T18:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/?p=6273"},"modified":"2026-01-01T12:16:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T18:16:49","slug":"public-domain-day-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/public-domain-day-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Domain Day 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s that most wonderful time of the year, when a bunch of copyrighted works from around a hundred years ago become part of the public domain in the US. <a href=\"https:\/\/web.law.duke.edu\/cspd\/publicdomainday\/2026\/\">This year&#8217;s pile<\/a> (and another summary <a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2025\/12\/27\/works-entering-the-u-s-public-domain-in-2026.html\">here<\/a>) includes the Marx Brothers&#8217; <em>Animal Crackers<\/em> and the novel (not the film) <em>The Maltese Falcon<\/em>. Enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.law.duke.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/centers\/cspd\/pdd2026\/Public_Domain_Day_2026_MontageCC-BY.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that most wonderful time of the year, when a bunch of copyrighted works from around a hundred years ago become part of the public domain in the US. This year&#8217;s pile (and another summary here) includes the Marx Brothers&#8217; Animal Crackers and the novel (not the film) The Maltese Falcon. Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6275,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6273\/revisions\/6275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}