9 Best Articles in 2022
Motherboard
Where to Download All the Books That Just Entered the Public Domain
Motherboard
3 min read · From 2019 · Public Domain Day was yesterday, but you were probably hungover, so here’s how to download the tens of thousands of books that became legal to download for free in 2019.
Reader View · Shared by 123, including Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator, Bilal Aslam, Simon Carless, Jochen Burkhard, Austin Kleon, Yann “shalf@mastodon.social” Heurtaux 不停, ἀποκαραδοκία, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 (He/Him), Florian Hanke 🍎, DON’T PANIC, 𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧 , Nils Hitze, Esther Schindler
Smithsonian Magazine
Smithsonian Releases 2.8 Million Images Into Public Domain
Smithsonian Magazine
6 min read · From 2020 · The launch of a new open access platform ushers in a new era of accessibility for the Institution
Reader View · Shared by 147, including ashley r 🇺🇦 🇺🇦, Mathew Ingram, Ziad Shihab, Stephanie A Kowalski, Dr. A.S. Barwich, Artnome, Thomas Power, Nick Floro, Dr Catherine Breslin, Chris Agro | Agrotising, Casey Smith, Matthias Lampe, Tom Connor
web.law.duke.edu
Public Domain Day 2021 | Duke University School of Law
web.law.duke.edu
~18 min read · 2020-12-15 · January 1, 2019 is (finally) Public Domain Day: Works from 1923 are open to all!
Reader View · Shared by 90, including Joe Germuska, Andrew Russeth, Esther Schindler, Marc Abrahams, Dan Gillmor, Carl Zimmer
web.law.duke.edu
Public Domain Day 2022 | Duke University School of Law
web.law.duke.edu
~15 min read · 2021-12-26 · January 1, 2021 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1925 are open to all!"
Reader View · Shared by 71, including Cory Doctorow, Austin Kleon, Jane Friedman, Kate Darling, Brett Errington
Public Domain Review
The Public Domain Review – Online journal dedicated to showcasing the most interesting and unusual out-of-copyright works…
Public Domain Review
~13 min read · 2020-10-21 · During the 17th century, as knowledge of the Universe and its contents increased, so did speculation about life on other planets. One such source, as Hugh Aldersey-Williams explores, was Dutch…
Reader View · Shared by 86, including Jennifer Ouellette, Brett King #Technosocialism #OptimalHumanity, Marcos
web.law.duke.edu
Public Domain Day 2020 | Duke University School of Law
web.law.duke.edu
~15 min read · From 2019 · January 1, 2019 is (finally) Public Domain Day: Works from 1923 are open to all!
Reader View · Shared by 28, including Dan Gillmor, Fawzi A. Baba-Ali, Scott Santens, Monica Burns, Ed.D. #EdTech, Simon Carless, Austin Kleon, Esther Schindler, Kelsey D. Atherton
priceonomics.com
How Mickey Mouse Evades the Public Domain
priceonomics.com
10 min read · From 2016 · Every time Disney’s beloved mouse is about to enter the public domain, U.S. copyright law magically changes. Does he deserve special protection, or should he be relinquished to society?
Reader View · Shared by 26, including Alex Barrera, Charlie O'Keefe, Andreas Von Gunten, Vikram Dutt, Leo Souza Nascimento
Public Domain Review
The Public Domain Review – Online journal dedicated to showcasing the most interesting and unusual out-of-copyright works…
Public Domain Review
~11 min read · Feb 9th · From the vast confines of his imaginary prisons to the billowy scenes that comprise his grotteschi, the early works of Giovanni Battista Piranesi wed the exacting details of first-hand observation…
Reader View · Shared by 71, including Colin Wright, Jennifer Ouellette
VICE
Libraries and Archivists Are Scanning and Uploading Books That Are Secretly in the Public Domain
VICE
3 min read · From 2019 · Millions of books are secretly in the public domain thanks to a copyright loophole, a new project seeks to put them on the Internet Archive.
Reader View · Shared by 44, including Bill Slawski ⚓ 🇺🇦, Jane, Neeraj K. Agrawal, Ernie Smith
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Public Domain Review
The Public Domain Review – Online journal dedicated to showcasing the most interesting and unusual out-of-copyright works…
Public Domain Review
~12 min read · Apr 21st · Before humans stored memories as zeroes and ones, we turned to digital devices of another kind — preserving knowledge on the surface of fingers and palms. Kensy Cooperrider leads us through a…
Public Domain Review
The Public Domain Review – Online journal dedicated to showcasing the most interesting and unusual out-of-copyright works…
Public Domain Review
4 min read · Mar 30th · This photograph of Tesla, produced for *The Century Magazine*, shows the inventor seated beneath his giant “magnifying transmitter”, arcing 22-foot-long bolts of electricity.
Reader View · Shared by 16, including Marcos, Jason Zweig, Esther Schindler
Public Domain Review
The Public Domain Review – Online journal dedicated to showcasing the most interesting and unusual out-of-copyright works…
Public Domain Review
~17 min read · May 5th · Idling alongside the waters of artificial grottoes, visitors found themselves in lush, otherworldly settings, where art and nature, pleasure and peril, and humans and nymphs could, for a time,…
Reader View · Shared by 22, including Simon C, Cory Doctorow
Public Domain Review
The Public Domain Review – Online journal dedicated to showcasing the most interesting and unusual out-of-copyright works…
Public Domain Review
4 min read · Apr 20th · In "stream of time" charts, Friedrich Strass and later artists depict human history as bodies of flowing water.
Reader View · Shared by 17, including Jennifer Ouellette, Marcos
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Public Domain Review
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~12 min read · Apr 21st · Before humans stored memories as zeroes and ones, we turned to digital devices of another kind — preserving knowledge on the surface of fingers and palms. Kensy Cooperrider leads us through a…
VICE
Musicians Algorithmically Generate Every Possible Melody, Release Them to Public Domain
VICE
2 min read · From 2020 · Damien Riehl and Noah Rubin generated and saved every possible melody to a hard drive, then turned it back around to the commons.
Reader View · Shared by 153, including Cem Sertoglu 🤖, Chris Heilmann, John Koetsier, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Dan Gillmor, Sam Proud, Elizabeth Picciuto, hardmaru
Data Visualization Society
Ten Considerations Before you Create another Chart about COVID-19
Data Visualization Society
10 min read · From 2020 · To sum it up — #vizresponsibly; which may mean not publishing your visualizations in the public domain at all.
Reader View · Shared by 119, including Dominik Grolimund, Yves Mulkers, Mike Freeman, 瑞拿頭, Niklaus Gerber, Marie-José Kolly, Katja Evertz, Evan Sinar, PhD, David Bauer, Fern, Stephanie A Kowalski, luis antónio santos
Aeon+Psyche
My words have meaning, your parrot’s do not. Wittgenstein explains
Aeon+Psyche
7 min read · 2021-06-02 · For Wittgenstein, meaning and understanding reside, not in some mysterious private realm, but entirely in the public domain
Reader View · Shared by 109, including Stephen Law, Nigel Warburton 🧡 #RejoinEU 🇺🇦, Albert Ràfols, Anita Leirfall, Krishna, Marylin Delgado, Guy Longworth, Dr Rani Lill Anjum ☮️🌍
Gizmodo
Movies, Music, and Books That Enter the Public Domain Today
Gizmodo
2 min read · From 2020 · Today isn’t just a day to nurse your hangover from New Year’s Eve—it’s also a day to celebrate the public domain. Movies, books, music, and more from 1924 are all entering the public domain today,…
Reader View · Shared by 30, including Gretchen Rubin, Josep M. Ganyet, Bill Slawski ⚓ 🇺🇦
goodfreephotos.com
Free Photos - Free Images
goodfreephotos.com
3 min read · From 2016 · Free stock photos and creative commons (cc0) and public domain photos. All free for commercial use with no strings attached
Reader View · Shared by 46, including Daniel Lawniczak, Mo Schuster, Taylor Banks 🌻🇺🇸🇺🇦, Rodrigo Prior, Thomas Kaul, Ivan Degtyarenko, Navjeet Chabbewal, Malik El Bay 🕊, Stefan Weber, Atul Pradhananga
VICE
Millions Books Are Secretly in the Public Domain. You Can Download Them Free
VICE
3 min read · From 2019 · A quirk of copyright law means that millions of books are now free for anyone to read, thanks to some work from the New York Public Library.
Reader View · Shared by 100, including Creators, rohit, Daniel Benchimol, Mathew Ingram, Stephanie A Kowalski, Skillshare, ahg, Nick Szabo, Mark Kaigwa
Ars Technica
Inventor says Google is patenting work he put in the public domain
Ars Technica
9 min read · From 2018 · Creator of a breakthrough compression algorithm fights to keep it patent-free.
Reader View · Shared by 106, including Merkstatt, Lucas Foster, luis antónio santos, Liliane Ferrari ™, José Rodrigues, Gérard Godin, Thomas Power, Bjorn Larsen, 𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧
Ars Technica
Mickey Mouse will be public domain soon—here’s what that means
Ars Technica
8 min read · From 2019 · The Internet stopped another copyright extension without firing a shot.
Reader View · Shared by 105, including Tom Connor, Nils Hitze, Carl Morris, BrendanEich, Liliane Ferrari ™, Andrew Chen 🇺🇸, hiten.eth, Bjorn Larsen, Brad Brooks, 𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧 , Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 (He/Him), Dominik Grolimund, Florian Hanke 🍎
