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  2. Public domain - Wikipedia

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    A public-domain book is a book with no copyright, a book that was created without a license, or a book where its copyrights expired [17] or have been forfeited. [clarification needed] [18] In most countries the term of protection of copyright expires on the first day of January, 70 years after the death of the latest living author.

  3. Public domain in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In the past, a work would enter the public domain in the United States if it was released without a copyright notice. This was true prior to March 1, 1989, but is no longer the case. Any work (of certain, enumerated types) now receives copyright as soon as it is fixed in a tangible medium.

  4. List of films in the public domain in the United States ...

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    All motion pictures made and exhibited before 1929 are indisputably in the public domain in the United States. This date will move forward one year, every year, meaning that films released in 1929 will enter the public domain in 2025, films from 1930 in 2026, and so on, concluding with films from 1977 entering the public domain in 2073.

  5. History of television - Wikipedia

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    Family watching TV, 1958. The concept of television is the work of many individuals in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The first practical transmissions of moving images over a radio system used mechanical rotating perforated disks to scan a scene into a time-varying signal that could be reconstructed at a receiver back into an approximation of the original image.

  6. Bonanza - Wikipedia

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    Bonanza is an American Western television series that ran on NBC from September 12, 1959, to January 16, 1973. Lasting 14 seasons and 431 episodes, Bonanza is NBC's longest-running Western, the second-longest-running Western series on U.S. network television (behind CBS's Gunsmoke ), and one of the longest-running, live-action American series.

  7. Television in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Television is one of the major mass media outlets in the United States. In 2011, 96.7% of households owned television sets; [1] about 114,200,000 American households owned at least one television set each in August 2013. [2] Most households have more than one set. The percentage of households owning at least one television set peaked at 98.4% ...

  8. Happy Birthday to You - Wikipedia

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    Happy Birthday to You. " Happy Birthday to You ", or simply " Happy Birthday ", is a song traditionally sung to celebrate a person's birthday. According to the 1998 Guinness World Records, it is the most recognized song in the English language, followed by "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow". The song's base lyrics have been translated into at least ...

  9. List of public domain works with multimedia adaptations

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    TV series Live action TV series Video games Other media; Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) numerous adaptations and sequels: various: several, most famously the 1951 Disney adaptation: several: several: several: several – Anne Shirley (Lucy Maud Montgomery) Anne of Green Gables' (1908) Anne of Avonlea ...