The Great Gatsby

Books

Opinion: 'The Great Gatsby' Enters Public Domain But It Already Entered Our Hearts

2:09pm January 02, 2021

by Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the legacy of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. The literary classic's copyright expired on the first day of 2021.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Franz Kafka and many more authors and artists have 1925 works entering the public domain on January 1. Above, a first edition of The Great Gatsby at the London International Antiquarian Book Fair in L

Arts

Party Like It's 1925 On Public Domain Day (Gatsby And Dalloway Are In)

12:30pm January 01, 2021

by Neda Ulaby

Every year on January 1, the copyright on thousands of books, songs, films and other creative works expires. Law professor Jennifer Jenkins says 2021 is "a bumper crop."