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Behold, the power of Creative Commons! (photoshop by author, combining Jean-Etienne Liotard’s “François Tronchin” (1757) with a Peruvian “Shell with Inlaid Feline” (100 BCE–700 CE), all images ...

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The Cleveland Museum of Art festooned its main facade in 2017 with the words from its original Jeptha Wade deed stating the institution is "for the benefit of all the people forever." The museum said ...

Celebrate the public domain with the University Libraries during the week of March 10! Works from Frida Kahlo, the Marx Brothers, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, and more all entered the public ...

With the beginning of 2025, paintings by the likes of Henri Matisse, Frida Kahlo, and André Derain are shedding their copyright protections and entering the public domain in the United States, ...

Every year a new set of works enters the public domain and becomes free for people to creatively reuse, depending on the copyright laws of your area. The Public Domain Review, a nonprofit online ...

The Getty recently announced a new program in support of restriction-free sharing of public domain images with the launch of their "Open Content Program." As a first step toward making "all images of ...

The Great American Novel enters the public domain on January 1, 2019—quite literally. Not the concept, but the book by William Carlos Williams. It will be joined by hundreds of thousands of other ...

With 2025 not even a week old, predictions about what the new year has in store have already begun. The title track from the hit play and movie entered the public domain Wednesday alongside a bevy of ...

January 1st is Public Domain Day. That's the day creative works over a certain age enter the public domain. Among other things, January 1 is Public Domain Day. That means copyrights expire on works ...