If you're a book publisher who wants to put out a new edition of Ernest Hemingway's short-story collection "Men Without Women," a filmmaker who wants to shoot a remake of Fritz Lang's classic science-fiction film "Metropolis" or a blues musician who wants to record a new version of Bessie Smith's "Preaching the Blues" or Ira and George Gershwin's "Funny Face," Jan. 1, 2023, was a momentous occasion.
That's the date when creative works copyrighted in 1927 entered the public domain in the U.S., which basically means that they can now be shared, performed, reused, repurposed or sampled without the user having to obtain permission from the copyright holder or pay anything for using the work, as this 2023 Voice of America
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