According to Gutenberg News every new year since the first copyrights expired, back around 1724, the world has looked forward to the expiration of→

ReadWriteWeb reports that Creative Commons has announced the release of the Public Domain Mark, a tool that will help easily identify those works that→

Music legend Ray Charles capitalized on music publishing angle: he began recording a lot of public domain songs, like “America The Beautiful,” and “Lift→

TechDirt is reporting that last week the International Jack Benny Fan Club got some very bad news. Rather than allow the club with the→

One big reason readers choose e-books over ink and paper versions: The digital ones are cheaper, reports CNet News. That wasn’t the case when→

The new Sherlock Holmes movie opened Christmas day and has made over $93 million US. A small part of the reason why Holmes is→

ReadWriteWeb: The White House is making unprecedented use of consumer web technologies but those technologies aren’t always well suited to fit the government’s needs.→