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The Sweet Public Domain: Celebrating Copyright Expiration with the Honey Bunch Series

Benson, Sara R.; Dwyer, Kaylen

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Title
The Sweet Public Domain: Celebrating Copyright Expiration with the Honey Bunch Series
Author(s)
  • Benson, Sara R.
  • Dwyer, Kaylen
Contributor(s)
  • D'Amico, LuElla
  • Ferguson, Kirby
  • Johnson, Deidre
Issue Date
2020-02
Keyword(s)
  • copyright
  • public domain
  • children's literature
Date of Ingest
2025-04-23T13:27:20-05:00
Abstract
The Sweet Public Domain: Celebrating Copyright Expiration with the Honey Bunch Series is a celebration of the reinstatement of public domain day on January 1, 2019, after a twenty-year hiatus due to the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. This digital collection features a republication of the children’s book series Honey Bunch, which began publication in 1923, supported by essays on the book series, copyright and the public domain. The Honey Bunch series follows the adventures of four-year-old Honey Bunch, along with cat Lady Clare and doll Eleanor, as the child encounters a succession of firsts—her first visit to the city, her first days on the farm, her first little garden, her first visit to the seashore, and more. Accompanying essays provide an introduction to and history of the series, exploring its themes of domesticity, materialism, and childhood bliss within the context of the Great Depression, girls’ series books, and the Stratemeyer Syndicate. The collection is rounded off by essays on copyright and the public domain in celebration of the impact of the end of extended copyright terms on the collective imagination.
Publisher
Illinois Open Publishing Network
Type of Resource
  • text
  • still image
  • dataset
  • Web Archive File
Genre of Resource
book
Language
eng
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21900/wd.11
Copyright and License Information
  • The copyright for the editorial content of The Sweet Public Domain is owned by Sara Benson and Kaylen Dwyer, 2020. The copyrights for individual chapters are owned by their authors, 2020. The text of the Honey Bunch series books is in the public domain and not protected by copyright.
  • This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except as otherwise noted(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).

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