#publicdomain Timeline

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1/ As far as I can tell, there are no #AI tools to help determine whether an arbitrary #book is in the #PublicDomain for an arbitrary country.

I respect the best of the non-AI tools and services already doing parts of this complex job, such as the #HathiTrust Rights Determination, #Stanford Copyright Renewal Database, and the #PublicDomainReview Guide to Finding Public Domain Works Online.

But there seems to be a niche for testing to see whether AI tools might do this job better and faster.

#Copyright #ScholComm

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Plein, Wassenaar, Nederland

https://www.instagram.com/p/DVb4nociI_x/ via #Instagram

#Wassenaar #ZuidHolland #Nederland #Netherlands #Niederlande #Plein #Square #Platz #Dorp #Village #Dorf #Bakstenen #Bricks #Ziegelsteine #Fotografie #Photography #Snapshot #PublicDomain

📷 CC0 Public Domain by @reinoudk

Foto van het dorpsplein van Wassenaar met een dorpspomp en daaromheen kleine bakstenen huisjes. Twee kale bomen links en rechts op de fotot. Op de voorgrond twee zitbanken. | Photo of the village square of Wassenaar with a village pump and small brick houses surrounding it. Two bare trees on the left and right of the photo. In the foreground, two benches.

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Congrats to "THE KING IN YELLOW" by Caleb Hernandez, a Finalist in the Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest 🎬

An eerie remix that is genuinely unsettling and even frightening when watched alone at home.

Full film ➡️ https://archive.org/details/king-in-yellow

#PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay

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Welcome to the public domain, CIMARRON (1930) by Edna Ferber 📖

This sweeping saga of the Oklahoma land rush follows Yancey & Sabra Cravat as they build a life on the American frontier 🌾🏜️

The book inspired the Oscar-winning film starring Richard Dix & Irene Dunne.

Read it here ➡️ https://archive.org/details/cimarron0000edna_o9w0

#PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain #InternetArchive

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Before you ask a diffusion model to barf up a banner image for your article, please consider searching one of the many existing sources of fine & free media:
• Public Domain Image Archive
• Openverse
• Wellcome Collection Image Archive
• Digital Bodleian
• Getty Open Content Program
• Wikimedia Commons

#publicdomain #substack

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"A WOPOJOU remains to be imagined ... when will we build this jewel of a Workshop of Potential Journalism ?"

-👊- #punchline

#oulipo #centmillemillairdsdefaits #oujoupo #perecIsNotDead #WOPOJOU @pasteetavocat #meta #metaMeta #metaSquare #minimalist #publicDomain #creativeCommons #punchmeta

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"Ze atred haz 2 mush thai knee mistakes of strikes hon itz netwerks"

-👊- #punchline

#keyboardFitness #slopMistakes #AIllucinations @pasteetavocat #meta #slogan #metaslogan #minimalist #publicDomain #creativeCommons #metaslogan

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"La chaîne météo ne contrôle pas la météo"

-:punch:- #punchline

#performativeChannels #weatherMakers #climateChanges @johnoliver @lastweektonight #meta #calligram #metacalligram #minimalist #publicDomain #creativeCommons #metacalligram

https://youtu.be/bCroWm39-gY

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@lashman/116091749049524915

These don't have a marketing budget. They have you. If you think any of this is worth sharing, a boost really helps.

#OpenSource #CC0 #FOSS #Linux #PublicDomain

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🎉 Welcome to the Public Domain, FIDDLING AROUND (1930)! 🐭🎶🎻

🎬 If the star looks a little odd, it's because this is the first Mickey cartoon not animated by Ub Iwerks (who left to create Flip the Frog). It's also the first Mickey short released by Columbia Pictures, making it a unique piece of animation history.

Full short ⤵️
https://archive.org/details/fiddling-around-aka-just-mickey_1930

#PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain #animation

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#Wanderlust - Frauen, Berge und der männliche Blick. ⛰️
Neue Bildergalerie, inspiriert von @KayaWalden & @Elbwiese:
https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/content/galerien/wanderlust-frauen-berge-und-der-maennliche-blick
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Foto: Sächsische Schweiz, Schrammsteine. Portrait Anna (Ehefrau des Fotografen Otto Herrmann), 1913, Deutsche Fotothek | @slubdresden (#PublicDomain)
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Eigene Idee für eine Bildergalerie? Gern Mail an uns: kommunikation(a)deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de

Frau in Kostüm mit Stöckelschuhen, Federhut, Regnschirm und Handtasche an einem mannshohen Felsen

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Congrats to "ELPIS" by Heather Tahl, a Finalist in the Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest. 🎬

After all the art on Earth was harvested, it was discarded. Only a few businessmen reaped the new profits, while the artists searched for a means to create & survive. Elpis employs public domain works to show the value of human artists.

Full film ➡️ https://archive.org/details/elpis_202601

#PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay

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📊 Our 2025 Annual Report is out!

Over the past year, COMMUNIA continued working to strengthen the #PublicDomain and improve #accesstoknowledge and #culture across Europe.

Learn more about our impact and read it here 👇
https://communia-association.org/2026/03/05/communia-2025-annual-report-out-now/

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Message from the Executive Director: Accessibility at Project Gutenberg

Please take a look at this important topic published in our latest newsletter.

https://www.gutenberg.org/newsletter/

If you use social media, please feel invited to respond with upvotes or comments or questions. Your shares and reposts help spread awareness of Project Gutenberg’s library.

#ebooks #publicdomain #accessibility

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Welcome to the public domain, GRAND HOTEL (1930) by Vicki Baum 🏨

A glamorous Berlin hotel becomes the crossroads for intertwined lives in this bestselling novel of drama, romance, and ambition 📖

In 1932, it received a big-screen treatment starring Greta Garbo.

Read it here ➡️ https://archive.org/details/bwb_W9-DGV-438

#PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain #InternetArchive

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Congrats to "TOM FROM COLORADO" by Nicola Eddy, a Finalist in the Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest 🎬

A poetic montage of indeterminacy and fleeting meaning using contemporary confessional text to evoke evanescent memory.

Full film ➡️ https://archive.org/details/tom-from-colorado

#PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay

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Project Gutenberg News - March 2026

Message from the Executive Director: Accessibility at Project Gutenberg
International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month
Christine de Pizan
100th Anniversary of “The Blue Castle”
Finances
New Releases for February 2026
Top 10 eBooks downloaded for the month of February
Links
Find Project Gutenberg on Social Media

https://www.gutenberg.org/newsletter/

#ebooks #publicdomain

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Congrats to "ELPIS" by Heather Tahl, a Finalist in the Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest. 🎬

After all the art on Earth was harvested, it was discarded. Only a few businessmen reaped the new profits, while the artists searched for a means to create & survive. Elpis employs public domain works to show the value of human artists.

Full film ➡️ https://archive.org/details/elpis_202601

#PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay

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Two of the @AuthorsAlliance crew talk back to the screen about works that entered the public domain, untangling the weird, wild, and confusing world of copyright law with irreverent but relevant commentary.

Watch the full short 👇
https://archive.org/details/mct2026

#PublicDomain #Copyright #OpenAccess #Libraries #CreativeReuse #PublicDomainDay

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Thanks @screwlisp

https://analognowhere.com/

Public domain. User supported.

Now I want to leave a donation.

#art #PublicDomain #cartoons

analognowhere cartoon shows a girl in an apocalyptic wasteland smoking and drinking while reading a tablet with her bunny.

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Congrats to "NOBODY KNOWS" by Mohamed Wane, a Finalist in the Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest 🎬

An achievement in editing that builds a mood of longing, suffering, and rapture. Quietly powerful and deeply felt.

Full film ➡️ https://archive.org/details/nobody-knows-fc-1

#PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay

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Wanda Gág's Millions of Cats (1928) is a new entrant to the #publicdomain this year and the oldest US children's book still in print. But there may be more to this heartwarming tale than first meets the eye... https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/millions-of-cats

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i made some small portable windows apps and put them up for free. CC0 - public domain, do whatever you want with them. No accounts, no telemetry, no installers.

- Core Cooldown - break timer
- Whisper Voice - local speech-to-text
- TypoGenie - Markdown to Word docs
- TutorialVault - video tutorial organizer
- OpenPylon - local Kanban board
- Vesper - distraction-free Markdown reader

Source on my self-hosted Gitea.

https://apps.lashman.live

#OpenSource #CC0 #FOSS #Productivity #PublicDomain

Screenshot of the lashmanApps website. Dark page with a deep teal-black gradient background. At the top, a small "APPS" label in a rounded border, followed by the title "lashmanApps" in large text where "lashman" is white and "Apps" is italic teal-blue. Below, the tagline "Focused, minimal, privacy-first software." and a badge reading "ALL APPS ARE FREE & CC0-LICENSED" in small caps.

Six app cards in a two-by-three grid. Each card has a dark glass-like background with rounded corners, an icon on the left, the app name in bold, and a short description.

Top row, left to right:
- Core Cooldown, teal coffee cup icon. "A mindful break timer for Windows."
- Whisper Voice, purple microphone icon. "Local speech recognition for Windows."
- TypoGenie, warm gold letter T icon. "Turn Markdown into professional Word docs."

Bottom row, left to right:
- TutorialVault, green play button icon. "Desktop video tutorial library manager."
- OpenPylon, teal tower/pylon icon. "A local-first Kanban board for Windows."
- Vesper, grey spiral/shell icon. "A distraction-free markdown reader for Windows."

Below these, a seventh card sits alone on the left reading "More coming soon" in green with "Stay tuned for new releases." and a plus icon.

At the bottom, "© 2026 lashman" in muted text, with two buttons: "Buy me a coffee" with a coffee cup icon, and "Support on Liberapay" with a heart icon.

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The recording from our Public Domain Day virtual event is now available!

🕵️ Investigate THE CASE OF THE DISAPPEARING COPYRIGHT to learn which works entered the public domain—and why copyright is more complicated than it looks.

Watch the full recording ⤵️
https://archive.org/details/the-case-of-the-disappearing-copyright

#PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay #Copyright #OpenCulture @AuthorsAlliance