(1 August 2015) In keeping with its ambition to become the world’s most open institution of its kind, the British Library has released over a million public domain illustrations and other images to the public through Flickr for anyone to reuse, remix or repurpose. So far, these images, which range from Restoration-era cartoons to colonial…
(7 April 2015) Rick Anderson writes that a week or so ago, a monumental thing happened: the number of public-domain books in the HathiTrust digital repository topped 5 million. And since no one (including HathiTrust, so far) seems to be making a very big deal about this, it seems like a good moment both to…
Duke University’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain has posted an analysis of which books would have entered the public domain on 1 January 2014 if the maximum copyright term remained at 56 years. The change to 70 years protection from the death of the author became effective in 1978 due to the…
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