Earlier this month, Open Culture pointed to a big move from the British Library: the library is putting a million images into the public domain. An image by Eliza F. Manning from “The Coming of Father ...

Yahoo is launching a library-digitization project to rival Google's controversial program. Yahoo is working with the Internet Archive, the University of California and others on a project to digitize ...

Numerous books, films and other works first published in 1926 enter the public domain on January 1. Center for the Study of the Public Domain When writer Benjamin Hoff published the Tao of Pooh in ...

Some of the properties headed into the public domain on Jan. 1 include the first Marx Brothers' film, William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury" and the first appearances of Popeye the Sailor Man.

Jan. 1 is Public Domain Day, meaning artworks from 1929 (or 1924 in the case of sound recordings) are now free for all creators to use and abuse to their hearts' content. The works of art, music, ...