From the Duke University School Of Law. On January 1, 2021, copyrighted works from 1925 will enter the US public domain,1 where they will be free for all to use and build upon. These works include books such as F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, Ernest Hemingway’s In Our Time, and…
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Katsushika Hokusai
Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾 北斎, c. 31 October 1760 – 10 May 1849), known simply as Hokusai, was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period.[1] Born in Edo (now Tokyo), Hokusai is best known as author of the woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji which includes the internationally iconic print,…
Notable works coming into public domain at midnight
Films are listed with their director, literature with their author Film: The Gold Rush, Charlie Chaplin Ben-Hur, Fred Niblo Бронено́сец «Потёмкин» (The Battleship Potemkin), Sergei Eisenstein The Big Parade, King Vidor Le fantôme du Moulin-Rouge (The Phantom of the Moulin-Rouge), René Clair Go West, Buster Keaton The Freshman, Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor, starring…
Freedom Box
https://freedombox.org/ I am running a yunohost server and an Ubuntu server with Apache so when I saw this I immediately wanted to play with it. It’s all open source and it runs on anything that will run Debian. There are also many downloads for singleboard computers and even turnkey hardware. https://freedombox.org/buy/
Sepia Search
https://sepiasearch.org/ A search engine of PeerTube videos and channels Developed by Framasoft I tried this and it works great. Link over and check it out.
‘Sistine Chapel of the ancients’ rock art discovered in remote Amazon forest
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/nov/29/sistine-chapel-of-the-ancients-rock-art-discovered-in-remote-amazon-forest Ella Al-Shamahi, an archaeologist and explorer, told the Observer: “The new site is so new, they haven’t even given it a name yet.” She spoke of the excitement of seeing “breathtaking” images that were created thousands of years ago. Tens of Thousands of paintings. Obviously public domain.
Cataloging the Public Domain – PD movies I watched in 2019
As part of my Film Preservation project, I am cataloginging all the public domain movies I watched this year. This blog post is taken from a thread over on the fediverse, and expanded a bit with links and the like. What follows is a list of more than 50 movies that are in the american…
Ivan Bilibin
Ivan Bilibin illustrated Russian folk art at the beginning of the twentieth century. Many of his illustrations are over 100 years old and public domain everywhere. Here’s a link https://www.wikiart.org/en/ivan-bilibin/all-works#!#filterName:all-paintings-chronologically,resultType:masonry He does fully colored work and also line art good for coloring books.
GitHub reinstates youtube-dl library after EFF intervention
GitHub also establishes a $1 million “developer defense fund” to help open source developers fight against abusive DMCA Section 1201 takedown claims. But in a blog post today, GitHub said the library did not actually break Section 1201 of the DMCA, citing a letter it received from Electronic Frontier Foundation lawyers, who to take up…
Public Domain Tapes
Welcome to the Public Domain Tapes podcast! This podcast is a love letter to the public domain. Each episode is an audio collage using public domain sources that all center around a specific theme. The show is made by me, Josh Castle, and is released as often as I can make episodes. https://publicdomaintapes.com/ I love…