Happy Public Domain Day!

Happy Public Domain Day! This article focuses on what href="https://web.law.duke.edu">entered the public domain in the United States today, with a bit on specific elsewhere. The case of Peter Pan is weirder than I'd realized: the play has been performed since 1904, but the script wasn't published for copyright purposes until 1928. It's now public domain in most of the world, but in the UK the Great Ormond Street Hospital has the right to royalties on Peter Pan in perpetuity.

Thank you, havocthecat, for a reminder and useful discussion of the matter.

recommended stories from the Yuletide fanfic exchange

I procrastinated just long enough on this post of Yuletide fanfic recommendations for the authors to be revealed, so I'm including that information:

(Probably) don't need to know canon:

Miss Marple books, by Agatha Christie:

And One Cried Murder by thelittlestbird: Miss Jane Marple is recovering from an illness, and she and the visiting nurse investigate a murder. The nurse does all the legwork, and they collaborate on the planning and analysis.

Might need to know canon:

Enchanted Forest chronicles, by Patricia Wrede:

Home Sweet Home by wolfraven80. The witch Morwen and the magician Telemain are trapped in her cottage when the magical door spell goes awry. Fortunately, her cats can still get in and out.


Need to know canon:

The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula Le Guin:

Some Things that No One Teaches You, by DachOsmin: Estraven enters kemmer while they and Genly Ai are crossing the Gobrin Ice.

Always Coming Home by Ursula Le Guin:

How to Enter the Five Houses, by ellen_fremedon: Excellent world-building for a book I love.

A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking, by T. Kingfisher:

A Few Days after the War, a bit of the rebuilding after the events of the book.

The Saint of Steel, by T. Kingfisher. Several people posted good fics in this fandom:

Property Law, by Gammarad: the solicitor-sacrosanct Zale applies property law to help a gnole client. Zale is a minor character, and I'm clearly not the only person who enjoys reading about them.

In the Consul's Court of Archon's Glory // Applicant No. #001 (on the instigation of the Temple of the White Rat), by raven (singlecrow): In which a bridge collapses, and Beartongue and Zale try to figure out if they can sue for negligence.

This Place of Hospitality by NaomiK. The Sisters of St. Ursa are fleeing the city, and the Temple of the White Rat provides an escort.

Enchanted Forest chronicles:

Procrastinating with Princesses Kazul is pushing one of her grandchildren to leave Kazul's cave and set up on their own, and they really don't want to, in part because that would mean deciding on a gender.