You may need to check off the amount of available storage quad on your e - reader , because classicbooksbyLewis Carroll , Agatha Christie , Aldous Huxley , D.H. Lawrence , andVirginia Woolfare now in the public arena . AsMotherboardreports , the copyright on tens of thousands of books from 1923 expired on January 1 , which means that these title of respect are now in the public domain and can be legally download for free .
Because the copyright on works release between 1923 and 1977 is good for 95 years , this marks the first time in decades that a large turn of books , motion-picture show , and songs has entered thepublic domain . Next year , point from 1924 will be uncommitted for download , and so on .
The list of deed up for grabs includesJacob ’s Roomby Virginia Woolf , The slaying on the Linksby Agatha Christie , The Prophetby Kahlil Gibran , The World CrisisbyWinston Churchill , Don Quixoteby Miguel de Cervantes , Alice ’s Adventures in Wonderlandby Lewis Carroll , The Three Musketeersby Alexandre Dumas , and many more .
Duke ’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain has painstakingly listed closely all of the new public domain works in anExcel spreadsheet , and a condensed list of the top titles is also available on itswebsite . unluckily , you ca n’t get them all in one place , but a few reliable sources probably have what you ’re look for .
Project Gutenberg , HathiTrust , and theInternet Archiveare a few of the digital libraries that rent you download or read book online for free . you may also see to it the selection available onRead PrintandThe Literature internet . If those options fail , seek searching for a specific title onGoogle Books .
A few noteworthy picture also recently enrol the public domain . Some of them include Cecil B. DeMille’sThe Ten CommandmentsandCharlie Chaplin’sThe Pilgrim . This essentially means these films can now be shown in theaters or public screenings without fear of profane copyright laws . Some of them are also available for viewing or download on theInternet Moving Image Archive .
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