Public Domain Day . Annual commemoration celebrated around the world on January 1 . It is the common cultural heritage of humanity, the sediment of cultural common goods that serve as a basis and inspiration to continue creating. Date in which the works protected by copyright that meet the terms that the laws of each country stipulate, can be used, copied, modified, distributed and even used for commercial purposes without the need to request permission from the authors or owners of the Copyright; thus feeding the cultural heritage of a society and facilitating its development.
The celebration highlights the authors and works that enter the public domain that day , sometimes they are also digitized and made available on the Internetthe works, taking advantage of the possibility of doing it freely Since the term of copyright varies according to the country, the list of authors and works that are highlighted and made available also varies. The most common copyright terms internationally are 50 and 70 years after the author’s death. All societies need to protect these common goods to guarantee access and enjoyment of art and sciences, preventing cultural heritage from being privatized
