Georges Seurat's "Seascape (Gravelines)" (1890) is among the works in the Public Domain Review's new Public Domain Image Archive (via National Gallery of Art) Determining what materials are considered ...

January 1: day of hangovers, gym subscription sign-ups, and a fresh batch of artworks being freed from the nearly century-long grip of copyright law. In the U.S., New Year’s Day is also Public Domain ...

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, ...

An ongoing dispute with digital cultural heritage is whether high-resolution images of artworks in the public domain have a copyright when the photograph itself is new or improved. As Ben Sutton ...

Are these heads creepy? Yes. Are they copyright violations? As of 2024, probably not. Credit: Daniel Knighton via Getty Images Jan. 1, 2024 is Public Domain Day in the United States — the day a bunch ...

As 2023 turned to 2024, yet more creative works have shed their copyright protections and joined the public domain. In the United States, which has the world’s longest and toughest copyright periods ...

New Year's Day commemorates the passing of time and the start of a new chapter, so it is fitting that the same day also presents an opportunity to breathe new life into thousands of creative works ...

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 ...

On January 1, 2025, copyrights will expire for books, films, comic strips, musical compositions and other creative works from 1929, as well as sound recordings from 1924 Ellen Wexler | Writer and ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. In January 2024, Steamboat Willie, the original version of ...

Benjamin Sutton reports in Hyperallergic that the Reiss Engelhorn Museum in Mannheim, Germany has filed a lawsuit against the Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco for hosting and making available for ...