IN OPPOSITION

 

In opposition to giant running amok in Mahanadi River,
A man at arms in darkness is faulty in central part,
Beheaded prophet leaves grave to weep,
Voltaire love is a lout I spoiled,
Winds in chase caught no shoes 
Endless looks recalled offence,
Go wild the morning after,
Hesling beat up a bloodsuker.

Horrid pong a prisoners lounge,
Is thier an amorous archer among the red roses,
No learner he's kinda of rough looking,
Outlawed sleeping around,
Copy held quickfire attacks .

BOOK'S IN PUBLIC DOMAIN

 

Books

• A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh, decorations by E. H. Shepard 6 
• Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
• Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope (her first collection of poems)
• Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues
• T. E. Lawrence, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (later adapted into the film Lawrence of Arabia)
• Felix Salten, Bambi, A Life in the Woods
• Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam
• Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
• Edna Ferber, Show Boat
• William Faulkner, Soldiers’ Pay (his first novel)
• Willa Cather, My Mortal Enemy
• D. H. Lawrence, The Plumed Serpent
• H. L. Mencken, Notes on Democracy

Musical Compositions in Public Domain

 

Musical Compositions

Every piece of recorded music is covered by two distinct copyrights, one over the original composition—the words and music—and the second over the actual recording of the song. Earlier we listed sound recordings from before 1923 entering the public domain. Here are some of the compositions from 1926 that will be joining them.

• Bye Bye Black Bird (Ray Henderson, Mort Dixon)
• Snag It (Joseph ‘King’ Oliver)
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Irving Berlin)
• Black Bottom Stomp (Ferd ‘Jelly Roll’ Morton)
• Someone To Watch Over Me (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)
• Nessun Dorma from Turandot (Giacomo Puccini, Franco Alfano, Giusseppe Adami, Renato Simoni)
• Are You Lonesome To-Night (Roy Turk, Lou Handman)
• When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin’ Along (Harry Woods)
• Ke Kali Nei Au (“Waiting For Thee”) (Charles E. King), in 1958 renamed Hawaiian Wedding Song with new lyrics (English) by Hoffman & Manning
• Cossack Love Song (Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, George Gershwin, Herbert Stothart)

Movies Entering the Public Domain

 

Movies Entering the Public Domain

• For Heaven’s Sake (starring Harold Lloyd)
• Battling Butler (starring Buster Keaton) 12 
• The Son of the Sheik (starring Rudolph Valentino)
• The Temptress (starring Greta Garbo)
• Moana (docufiction filmed in Samoa)
• Faust (German expressionist classic)
• So This Is Paris (based on the play Le Réveillon)
• Don Juan (first feature-length film to use the Vitaphone sound system)
• The Cohens and Kellys (prevailed in a famous copyright lawsuit)
• The Winning of Barbara Worth (a Western, known for its flood scene)

SOUND RECORDING S Public domain

 

• Mamie Smith and Her Jazz Hounds, Crazy Blues, Don’t Care Blues, That Thing Called Love, and You Can’t Keep a Good Man Down (Perry Bradford)
• Ethel Waters, Down Home Blues (Tom Delaney) and There’ll Be Some Changes Made (Benton Overstreet, Billy Higgins)
• Sophie Tucker, Some of These Days (Shelton Brooks) and Pick Me Up and Lay Me Down (Harry Ruby, Bert Kalmar)
• Norfolk Jazz & Jubilee Quartets, Jelly Roll Blues (Ferd “Jelly Roll” Morton)
• Fisk University Jubilee Quartet, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (see story) (Traditional African-American spiritual song)
• Vess L. Ossman, Maple Leaf Rag (Scott Joplin)
• Bert Williams, Nobody and Let It Alone (Bert Williams, Alex Rogers), and Everybody Wants a Key to My Cellar (Ed Rose, Billy Baskette, Lew Pollack)
• Billy Murray, Give My Regards to Broadway and The Grand Old Rag (Flag) (George M. Cohan), Alexander’s Ragtime Band (Irving Berlin)
• Harry Lauder, Roamin’ in the Gloamin’ (Harry Lauder)
• Enrico Caruso performances from operas such as Rigoletto and La Traviata (Giuseppe Verdi), La Bohème (Giacomo Puccini), and Pagliacci (Ruggero Leoncavallo); songs such as Over There (George M. Cohan, French lyrics Louis Delamarre) and O Sole Mio (Neapolitan folk song)
• Pablo Casals, Bourée (Johann Sebastian Bach) and Dream of Love (Liebestraum) (Franz Liszt)
• Sergei Rachmaninoff, Liebesleid (Fritz Kreisler; arr. Rachmaninoff)
• Orquesta Max Dolin, La Golondrina (Narciso Serradell Sevilla)
• Ory’s Sunshine Orchestra, Ory’s Creole Trombone (Edward ‘Kid’ Ory)
• Europe’s Society Orchestra, Too Much Mustard (Cecil Macklin)
• The Sousa Band, The Star-Spangled Banner (John Stafford Smith, Francis Scott Key, arr. John Philip Sousa), Semper Fidelis and multiple other marches by John Philip Sousa
• Jules Levy, The Tale of the Bumble Bee (Gustav Luders, Frank Pixley)
• Anna Chandler, She’s Good Enough To Be Your Baby’s Mother (and She’s Good Enough To Vote With You) (Herman Paley, Alfred Bryan)
• Fanny Brice, My Man (Maurice Yvain, Jacques-Charles, Albert Willemetz, English lyrics Channing Pollock) and Second Hand Rose (Grant Clarke, James F. Hanley)
• Marion Harris, I Ain’t Got Nobody (Roger A. Graham, Spencer Williams)
• Nora Bayes, How You Gonna Keep ’Em Down on the Farm? (Joe Young, Sam M. Lewis, Walter Donaldson)
• Al Jolson, Swanee (George Gershwin, B.G. De Sylva, Irving Caesar)
• John Steel, A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody (Irving Berlin)
• Joe Schenck and Gus Van, Carolina in the Morning (Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn)
• Peerless Quartet, Cows May Come, and Cows May Go, but the Bull Goes On Forever (Harry Von Tilzer, Vincent Bryan)

Mamie Smith That thing called love

 

BATTLING BUTLER