Hachette Publishes New ‘Gatsby’ as Copyrights End

New York Times: The new novel “Nick,” by Michael Farris Smith, is something of a prequel to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic “The Great Gatsby.” Showbiz411: Copyrights have expired for 1925 novels like “The Great Gatsby” and “Mrs. Dalloway,” as well as films by Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, and songs by the Gershwins, Irving Berlin and Ma Rainey.