Source: Winnie-the-Pooh and early sound recordings enter public domain – The Verge This past January 1st some really big works entered the public domain, the biggest being the original Winnie The Pooh. When a piece of work enters the public domain, anyone is allowed to reproduce the work or remix the work into something new….
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 Franz Kafka’s The Trial (in the original German), silent films featuring Harold Lloyd…
For the first time in its 174-year history, the Smithsonian has released 2.8 million high-resolution two- and three-dimensional images from across its collections onto an open access online platform for patrons to peruse and download free of charge. Featuring data and material from all 19 Smithsonian museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives and the National Zoo, the…
Paris Musées announced yesterday that it is now offering 100,000 digital reproductions of artworks in the city’s museums as Open Access — free of charge and without restrictions — via its Collections portal. Paris Musées is a public entity that oversees the 14 municipal museums of Paris, including the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville…
Starting on Jan. 1, anyone can legally remix George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, screen Buster Keaton’s silent films, or publish their own edition of Agatha Christie’s whodunnit The Man in the Brown Suit. These classics are among the hundreds of books, films, novels, maps, music, and art created in 1924 that will enter the public…
But! A recent NYPL project has paid for the already-digitized registration records to be marked up as XML. (I was not involved, BTW, apart from saying “yes, this would work” four years ago.) Now for anything that’s unambiguously a “book”, we have a parseable record of its pre-1964 interactions with the Copyright Office: the initial registration and any potential renewal….
This special collection presents children’s books selected from the General and Rare Book Collections at the Library of Congress. The collection includes classic works that are still read by children today, and lesser-known treasures drawn from the Library’s extensive collection of historically significant children’s books. The books in this collection were published in the United…
LibriVox is a collection of audio books of public domain works created by volunteers. The language used in public domain works can be pretty difficult for students to understand, having the audiobook available may make the materials more accessible. Plus, you could have your students create audio books and donate them to LibriVox.
Over 50,000 images from the Art Institute of Chicago are now available online. Source: Discover Art & Artists | The Art Institute of Chicago Via: The Art Institute of Chicago Has Put 50,000 High-Res Images from Their Collection Online These works of art are released in the public domain, which means you can do anything you want…
New York Libraries are bring public domain books to life through Instagram stories. Source: The New York Public Library is using Instagram Stories to bring classic novels to your smartphone – The Verge Sure, you can subscribe to receive classic works in your email or on your smartphone, but the New York Libraries are taking it…