Why are so many new horror films based on public domain works?
This #FridayThe13th (fittingly), let’s look at what this slasher surge says about remix culture & the role of the public domain.
More 
https://blog.archive.org/2025/06/13/screams-in-the-vault/
When I Leave the World Behind : Queline Meadows
this year’s top winner in the #InternetArchive #PublicDomainDay Film Remix Contest. These remarkable films not only reimagined and transformed public domain works but also demonstrated the boundless potential of remixing creative works to create something new.
All on-screen text comes from public domain books, periodicals, and sheet music. The music is Henry Burr’s 1915 recording of Irving Berlin's “When I Leave the World Behind.”
https://archive.org/details/when_i_leave_the_world_behind_remix
Terrific early work by famous authors among this year’s entries into the public domain.
Good Books Now In The Public Domain
#books #literature #cooyright #publicdomainday
https://warnercrocker.com/2025/01/03/good-books-now-in-the-public-domain/
Terrific early work by famous authors among this year’s entries into the public domain.
Good Books Now In The Public Domain
#Books #PublicDomainDay #copyright
https://warnercrocker.com/2025/01/03/good-books-now-in-the-public-domain/
I suggest you support Standard Ebooks 
“Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of U.S. copyright restrictions, and free of cost.” 
See what’s free to read on January 1 
https://standardebooks.org/blog/public-domain-day-2025
Please boost 
#StandardEbooks #PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay #Copyright #Ebooks #OpenSource
On #PublicDomainDay, 16 notable works of literature became available for everyone to copy, share, and reuse. Which one(s) were you waiting for? #bibliophile #VirginiaWoolf #WilliamFaulkner #ElleryQueen
Happy #PublicDomainDay! Here's my own short post and thoughts on the informal holiday.
https://www.chuggnutt.com/2025/01/01/happy-public-domain-day.php
More highlights from @publicdomainrev:
"On this year's Public Domain Day (which falls each January 1st) we welcome, in lots of countries around the world, the works of two titans of 20th-century art, Frida Kahlo and Henri Matisse, and in the US a handful of seminal books including William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One's Own, and Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms."
https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2025/01/public-domain-day-2025/
Happy #PublicDomainDay friends!
Maybe I'll get off my fuzzy butt this year and use some of this free stuff to make something that resembles content.
Maybe.
Happy #PublicDomainDay! On Jan 1, the comic debuts of Popeye and Buck Rogers, as well as Virginia Woolfs A Room of Ones Own and many other works, will finally enter the public domain. Find more DRM-free books at https://www.defectivebydesign.org/guide/ebooks #VirginiaWoolf #Popeye #BuckRogers DRM
Opin vísindi
Icelands #openAccess archive
#UniversityIceland and other public Universities in #Iceland
https://opinvisindi.is/?locale-attribute=en
And here are some opportunities to use these!
- join the "Gaming Like It's 1929" public domain game jam: https://www.techdirt.com/2024/12/28/the-public-domain-game-jam-starts-next-week/
- create and upload 2–3 minute short films to the Internet Archive to "explore and reimagine the creative treasures entering the public domain": https://blog.archive.org/2024/12/16/2025-public-domain-day-remix-contest-the-internet-archive-is-looking-for-creative-short-films-made-by-you/
Happy Public Domain Day!
https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2025/
"On January 1, 2025, thousands of copyrighted works from 1929 will enter the US public domain, along with sound recordings from 1924. They will be free for all to copy, share, and build upon."
Highlights include: Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, more Mickey Mouse animations, Marx Brothers' first feature film, Popeye, Tintin, and the song Singin' in the Rain.
Here’s an overview of what’s entering the Public Domain tomorrow in the United States.
#PublicDomainDay means both a surge in horror movies starring newly public domain characters and that more creative works are now free for all to copy, share, and reuse #Popeye #BuckRogers #Hemingway #VirginiaWoolf #DRM
Conveniently, January 1st will be the next Public Domain Day, with new works entering the public domain, including Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, more Mickey Mouse animations, Marx Brothers' first feature film, Popeye, Tintin, and the song Singin' in the Rain.
Here’s a Letterboxd list of movies entering the public domain in 2025. #PublicDomainDay https://letterboxd.com/mahatmakg/list/public-domain-day-2025-celebration/
For Public Domain Day, is there a playlist or watchlist or reading list that I should know about? #PublicDomainDay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Domain_Day
Copyright run amok:
1. High-end hoity-toity electronics company sends a YouTube DIY'er one of its products to repair.
2. He repairs it on camera (and reveals how poorly it was made).
3. Company files a copyright complaint with YouTube and gets his video taken down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPIrCaeVtvI
Happy #PublicDomainDay !
H/T: @fadhl3y via @pluralistic
