Every year, I get excited for January 1st, not just to start a new year in my screenwriting life but to see all the works that have entered the public domain that can inspire my next project. You can view an extensive list via Duke Law, but we'll recap the biggest titles in it below. Let's dive in. Public Domain 2025Without further ado, here's a list of some of the most popular things hitting the public domain. Books and PlaysWilliam Faulkner, The Sound and the FuryErnest Hemingway, A Farewell to ArmsVirginia Woolf, A Room of One's OwnDashiell Hammett, Red Harvest and The Maltese Falcon (as serialized in Black Mask magazine)John Steinbeck, Cup of Gold (Steinbeck's first novel)Richard Hughes, A High Wind in JamaicaOliver La Farge, Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love StoryPatrick Hamilton, RopeArthur Wesley Wheen, the first English translation of All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueAgatha Christie, Seven Dials MysteryRobert Graves, Good-bye to All ThatE. B. White and James Thurber, Is Sex Necessary? Or, Why You Feel the Way You DoRainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (only the original German version, Briefe an einen jungen Dichter)Walter Lippmann, A Preface to MoralsEllery Queen (Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee), The Roman Hat MysteryFilm A dozen more Mickey Mouse animations (including Mickey’s first talking appearance in The Karnival Kid)The Cocoanuts, directed by Robert Florey and Joseph Santley (the first Marx Brothers feature film)The Broadway Melody, directed by Harry Beaumont (winner of the Academy Award for Best...
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