FREE BOOKS | These Books are Entering the Public Domain in 2024

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10 ай бұрын

I am from the UK but I found your presentation of these books very interesting. Two at least are classics; ' Lady Chatterley's Lover, ' and ' Orlando. ' We have charity shops here and they can be bought second hand easily, and the good thing is you can buy almost any books in print in charity shops as people here offload them when a person dies, moves away or discards them as unwanted presents.

@katexcellence 9 ай бұрын

These are excellent recommendations - thank you so much for putting this together, and promoting the Public Domain!

@Old_Scot 10 ай бұрын

In the EU, as a general rule, books (and other pieces of art) go into the public domain 70 years after the death of the artist/author. There are exceptions to this, for instance the Great Ormond Street Hospital has the copyright on Peter Pan, as the author JM Barrie gifted it to them while he was alive.

@matthewwalker3131 10 ай бұрын

the yellow wallpaper is such a good public domain book - its a thriller about a young woman who gets confined to her room with hysteria, and starts seeing things in the wallpaper also if you like public domain movies, attack the wasp woman is hilarious

@JennyFernBooks 10 ай бұрын

I've heard such good things about The Yellow Wallpaper, but I have not read it yet.

@hypercube8735 9 ай бұрын

I had to read that one in high school English class - pretty messed up stuff. I hadn't realized it wasn't public domain - a lot of school curriculum literature tends to be.

@JennyFernBooks 2 ай бұрын

Update: I read The Yellow Wallpaper and really enjoyed it! 💛 thanks for the recommendation!

@BootstrappingBoondocker 5 күн бұрын

@@hypercube8735 these are the "classics" in literature.

@proeveo9367 10 ай бұрын

Yep, Evelyn Waugh is pronounced Eve-Lynn rather than Ev-Lynn. I pronounce mine the same as him, and it confuses people!

@evolutionofmaggie 9 ай бұрын

Thank you for putting out this research!

@TheMikester307 9 ай бұрын

My gosh! I remember "Millions of Cats" from grade school! I got my Brother and his family a copy for Christmas because they took in the local crazy cat lady's three cats when she bailed and they all had kittens! They have placed all the kitties (including two with me) and some of the grown cats but they still had a few adult cats of their own around the house!

@TheGrapeJellyLibrary 9 ай бұрын

Hello Jenny! I think I’m going to learn a thing or two from you -exciting! Great video. 😊

@JennyFernBooks 9 ай бұрын

Yay! Thank you!

@Eldertalk 9 ай бұрын

My mom (several times) would read Millions of Cats to me when I was a child (long ago, in the 1950's) ... later I read it to my children and was kind of creeped out by the ending. Funny, it didn't strike me as strange when I was a child. 🐱🐈🐈‍⬛

@JennyFernBooks 9 ай бұрын

When I picked it up, my sister warned me that I might not like the direction that it takes (as a cat lover)

@lucywillis4535 6 ай бұрын

All books from this era are all fascinating.....

@Sandraugiga 9 ай бұрын

Clicked for the knitted sweater, stayed for the good info.

@JennyFernBooks 9 ай бұрын

Thanks 😊

@factsflute 3 ай бұрын

Mam can i download public domain novels from Gutenberg and publish them in my blog?

@johnylitalo4163 9 ай бұрын

When will the Railway Series books enter the public domain?

@lupakajsalisa3652 10 ай бұрын

Does something entering the public domain mean that books and films about the characters can be released and profited of? For example, could people who have written fanfiction of these books now legally publish them with original character names profit off of it like an original book?

@JennyFernBooks 10 ай бұрын

Myself not being an expert I do not know the ins and outs, but the short answer is yes! (From my Google-based research: "If the source-work has entered the public domain, then it is certainly legal to make money off of your own version of it."

@AndrewHalliwell 9 ай бұрын

Yes.

@lupakajsalisa3652 9 ай бұрын

@@JennyFernBooks Oh excellent, thank you! (:

@lupakajsalisa3652 9 ай бұрын

@@AndrewHalliwell Are you wearing armour?

@AndrewHalliwell 9 ай бұрын

@@lupakajsalisa3652 yep. Used to heavily into live role playing.

@AndrewHalliwell 9 ай бұрын

If you included the year the author died, that'd be helpful. UK copyright is 70 years after the author's death, so Virginia wolf has been public domain for over a decade here, for example.

@JennyFernBooks 9 ай бұрын

That is a good suggestion - for next year perhaps!

@robertsouth6971 9 ай бұрын

The Ethical and Political Works of Motse by Yi Pao Mei.

@lauras4472 9 ай бұрын

What’s Public Domain?

@AndrewHalliwell 9 ай бұрын

It means the work is no longer bound by copyright, that it belongs to society as a whole rather than a person or organisation. Free to download, copy, distribute, sell, adapt, rip off. Anything you like, no legal consequences.