Public Domain
Librarians Are Finding Thousands Of Books No Longer Protected By Copyright Law
Up to 75 percent of books published before 1964 may now be in the public domain, according to researchers at the New York Public Library.
Guy Who Wrote Minecraft's Ending Poem Makes It Public Domain After Taking Shrooms
The original author’s story is one of love, universal accord, and magic mushrooms.
It's Too Hard to Put Artwork Into the Public Domain
"Just to prove that our commitment to copyright abandonment isn’t merely academic, we hereby abandon all copyright interests in this article, fully and irrevocably."
Smithsonian Releases 2.8 Million Incredible Images Into the Public Domain
With Smithsonian Open Access, you can easily peruse millions of amazing photos from the museum system's vast collection and do whatever you want with them.
150K Nature Illustrations Spanning Hundreds of Years Are Now Free Online
Thanks to the Biodiversity Heritage Library, you can easily peruse rad nature drawings, Charles Darwin's personal library, and many other works in the public domain.
Paris Museums Just Released 321,178 Works of Art Online for Free
You can now download high resolution scans from Goya, Monet, Cézanne, and hundreds of others.
Public Domain Day 2020: These 95-Year-Old Works Are Now Free to Use
In the US, everything copyrighted by artists and authors in 1924 is entered into the public domain as of January 1, 2020.
How Etsy Sellers and Big Business Make Money on Public Domain Art
Content in the public domain isn’t just legal to download for free. It’s also legal to sell.
How to Download the Books That Just Entered the Public Domain
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.
A Massive Number of Iconic Works Will Enter the Public Domain on New Year’s Eve
Why the copyright terms on a goldmine of works from 1923 are about to expire.
2018 Is the Last Year of America's Public Domain Drought
Happy Public Domain Day to everyone except America.
Soothe Your Weary Soul with the Calming Sounds of US National Parks
Geysers and frogs and bears, oh my!