9 Best Articles in 2022
Motherboard
Where to Download All the Books That Just Entered the Public Domain
Motherboard
3 min read · · 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. · 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 · · The launch of a new open access platform ushers in a new era of accessibility for the Institution · Shared by 146, 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 · · January 1, 2019 is (finally) Public Domain Day: Works from 1923 are open to all! · 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 · · January 1, 2021 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1925 are open to all!" · Shared by 71, including Cory Doctorow, Austin Kleon, Jane Friedman, Kate Darling, Brett Errington
The Public Domain Review
The Public Domain Review – Online journal dedicated to showcasing the most interesting and unusual out-of-copyright works…
The Public Domain Review
~13 min read · · 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… · 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 · · January 1, 2019 is (finally) Public Domain Day: Works from 1923 are open to all! · 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 · · 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? · Shared by 26, including Alex Barrera, Charlie O'Keefe, Andreas Von Gunten, Vikram Dutt, Leo Souza Nascimento
The Public Domain Review
The Public Domain Review – Online journal dedicated to showcasing the most interesting and unusual out-of-copyright works…
The Public Domain Review
~11 min read · · 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… · 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 · · 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. · Shared by 45, including Bill Slawski ⚓ 🇺🇦, Jane, Neeraj K. Agrawal, Ernie Smith
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The Public Domain Review
The Public Domain Review – Online journal dedicated to showcasing the most interesting and unusual out-of-copyright works…
The Public Domain Review
~14 min read · · During America’s Gilded Age, the future seemed to pulse with electrical possibility. Iwan Rhys Morus follows the interplanetary safari that is John Jacob Astor’s A Journey in Other Worlds, a high… · Shared by 19, including Esther Schindler, Cory Doctorow
The Public Domain Review
The Public Domain Review – Online journal dedicated to showcasing the most interesting and unusual out-of-copyright works…
The Public Domain Review
4 min read · · Some 50 years before collage would become an established art form, came these pioneering Victorian images all of which exude a certain decorative detail: blood. · Shared by 18, including Jennifer Ouellette, Cory Doctorow
The Public Domain Review
The Public Domain Review – Online journal dedicated to showcasing the most interesting and unusual out-of-copyright works…
The Public Domain Review
~13 min read · · With its otherworldly woodcuts and ornate descriptions of imagined architecture, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili brims with an obsessive and erotic fixation on form. Demetra Vogiatzaki accompanies the hero… · Shared by 12, including Jennifer Ouellette
The Public Domain Review
The Public Domain Review – Online journal dedicated to showcasing the most interesting and unusual out-of-copyright works…
The Public Domain Review
3 min read · · These two treatises detail the art of leaf preservation through “skeletonization”. · Shared by 13, including Jennifer Ouellette
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~13 min read · · On September 15, 1885, twenty-five years after his capture in Sudan, Jumbo the elephant tragically died when struck by a freight train. Ross Bullen takes us on a spectral journey through other… · Shared by 52, including Jennifer Ouellette
The Public Domain Review
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~12 min read · · 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… · Shared by 164, including Colin Wright
VICE
Musicians Algorithmically Generate Every Possible Melody, Release Them to Public Domain
VICE
2 min read · · Damien Riehl and Noah Rubin generated and saved every possible melody to a hard drive, then turned it back around to the commons. · 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
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Data Visualization Society
10 min read · · To sum it up — #vizresponsibly; which may mean not publishing your visualizations in the public domain at all. · Shared by 120, including Katja Evertz, Yves Mulkers, Mike Freeman, 瑞拿頭, Stephanie A Kowalski, Marie-José Kolly, Evan Sinar, PhD, Dominik Grolimund, luis antónio santos, Fern, Niklaus Gerber
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The Public Domain Review
~11 min read · · Of the 270,000 photographs commissioned by the US Farm Security Administration to document the Great Depression, more than a third were “killed”. Erica X Eisen examines the history behind this hole… · Shared by 128
Gizmodo
Movies, Music, and Books That Enter the Public Domain Today
Gizmodo
2 min read · · 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,… · Shared by 30, including Gretchen Rubin, Josep M. Ganyet, Bill Slawski ⚓ 🇺🇦
Aeon+Psyche
My words have meaning, your parrot’s do not. Wittgenstein explains
Aeon+Psyche
7 min read · · For Wittgenstein, meaning and understanding reside, not in some mysterious private realm, but entirely in the public domain · Shared by 110, including Stephen Law, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #Abolishthemonarchy, Albert Ràfols, Anita Leirfall, Krishna, Marylin Delgado, Guy Longworth, Dr Rani Lill Anjum ☮️🌍🍀
The Public Domain Review
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The Public Domain Review
10 min read · · In the 21st-century, infographics are everywhere. In the classroom, in the newspaper, in government reports, these concise visual representations of complicated information have changed the way we… · Shared by 129, including Stef Walter, jonathan w. y. gray 🐼, Jonathan Kogan, RJ Andrews, Katja Evertz, Jennifer Ouellette, Colin Wright, Joe Germuska
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Free Photos - Free Images
goodfreephotos.com
3 min read · · Free stock photos and creative commons (cc0) and public domain photos. All free for commercial use with no strings attached · Shared by 46, including Atul Pradhananga, Mo Schuster, L. Taylor Banks, Rodrigo Prior, Thomas Kaul, Ivan Degtyarenko, Navjeet Chabbewal, Malik El Bay 🕊🔰, Stefan Weber, Daniel Lawniczak
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