Reforming Copyright Is Possible - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education Initially the DPLA will focus only on making digitized copies of
millions of public-domain works available online. These include works
published in the United States before 1923, those published between 1923
and 1963 whose copyrights were not renewed, as well as those published
before 1989 without proper copyright notices, and virtually all
U.S.-government works.