Public Domain Day is January 1st. This is when works by a new group of authors enter the public domain because copyright expires when they have been dead for 70 years. We continue to celebrate it, even though it is already February. So who died in 1949? And what have we added so far?
Since we boldly digitize journals and encyclopedias (having numerous contributors) 70 years after they were published, regardless of when each contributors lived, we have also scanned:
Also recently digitized are some works by people who died in 1947 and 1948:
