Recognizing Public Domain Day For the first time since the passage of the [Copyright Term Extension Act](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act "Wikipedia Entry") in 1998, works will enter the public domain in the United States due to the expiration of the copyright term. This event at Suffolk University celebrates the legal and public policy rationale behind copyright limits and the public domain, as well as the creativity of those individuals whose works will soon enter the public domain. Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize winning author of _The Hours_ will participate with his lecture "Past Tense, Present Tense: The Ongoing Life of Virginia Woolf". Image: [George Charles Beresford - Virginia Woolf in 1902 via Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Charles_Beresford_-_Virginia_Woolf_in_1902_-_Restoration.jpg "")