It’s a new year and another work by Virginia Woolf has entered the public domain in
Besides A Room of One’s Own, the list includes:
- Orlando (1928)
- To the Lighthouse (1927)
- Mrs. Dalloway (1925)
- Jacob’s Room (1922)
- Night and Day (1919), and
- The Voyage Out (1915)
In the U.S., any work published before 1924 is in the public domain. Works published between 1923 and 1977 generally receive copyright protection for 95 years from the date of their publication. In 2012, writers who died before 1942 entered the pubic domain.
According to U.S. copyright law, these works are available for people to use, share and adapt after 95 years, when their copyrights expired.
