Public Domain Day 2024 celebrates the treasure trove of works, including books and movies, that enter the public domain on January 1, 2024: everything first published or released in the United States through the end of 1928.

Movies entering public domain on Jan. 1, 2024[edit]

These notable films entered the public domain on January 1, 2024:

• Steamboat Willie (original Mickey Mouse movie^[1])
• cartoon character Tigger in an early form
• The Circus (starring Charlie Chaplin)
• The Man Who Laughs
• The Passion of Joan of Arc
• Noah's Ark
• silent Speedy (Harold Lloyd's final feature film).

Writings entering public domain on Jan. 1, 2024[edit]

Here is a partial list of books that entered the public domain on January 1, 2023, because they were first published in 1928, or because they were unpublished works by authors who died in 1953:

• An American in Paris by George Gershwin
• Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
• Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf
• Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
• The Gangs of New York by Herbert Asbury
• The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie
• The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne
• The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht
• The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall

Music entering public domain on Jan. 1, 2024[edit]

Here is a partial list of notable music that enter the public domain on January 1, 2024, because they were first published in 1923:

See also[edit]

• "Works from 1927 are open to all!"
• Public Domain Review

References[edit]