Sometimes one work’s arrival in the public domain brings extras along with it. In two days, Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur’s play The Front Page, which Peter Marks called “the best play about newspapering ever written”, joins the public domain. Assuming no other prior copyright dependencies, that also frees two films derived from it that have unrenewed copyrights: the 1931 film The Front Page, and the 1940 film His Girl Friday. Both are in the National Film Registry. #PublicDomainDayCountdown