Why Isn't Batman in the Public Domain?

In 1998, if Congress hadn’t extended copyrights by 20 years, George Gershwin’s "Rhapsody in Blue," Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises and Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind would all be in the public domain. This year, the comic book characters Superman and Batman would be free to use by anyone. Meanwhile, movies from 1940–like Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator and John Ford’s The Grapes of Wrath–would have been slated to enter the public domain at the end of 2015.

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