copyright A federal judge declared that a famous song about public property is still private property Thom Dunn
copyright A pair of musicians recorded every possible MIDI melody just to get around copyright law Thom Dunn
art Download hi-rez scans of all 435 illustrations from John James Audubon's Birds of America Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Kickstarting a deluxe "Dracula" edition in a suitcase full of "primary source materials" from the novel Cory Doctorow
Copyfight Library of Congress releases 11,700 freely usable photos of "roadside America," taken by John Margolies Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Data-mining reveals that 80% of books published 1924-63 never had their copyrights renewed and are now in the public domain Cory Doctorow
art National Parks Service publishes hi-rez scans of Heinrich Berann's iconic, panoramic paintings of America's parks Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Using machine learning to pull Krazy Kat comics out of giant public domain newspaper archives Cory Doctorow
happy mutants To do in LA this weekend: laugh your head off at PUBLIC DOMAIN THE MUSICAL at the Hollywood Fringe Cory Doctorow
videos Video and audio from my closing keynote at Friday's Grand Re-Opening of the Public Domain Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Kickstarting a monthly zine that celebrates 1923 works that entered the public domain this year Cory Doctorow
happy mutants The re-opening of America's public domain is good news for artists, less so for the corporations that exploit them Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Celebrate Public Domain Day with a viewing of Cecil B Demille's 1923 epic "The Ten Commandments" Cory Doctorow
