🎉 The public domain just got bigger! Join us January 21 for a virtual celebration of the films, music, art, & books newly free for everyone to use, remix, & share. 🎟️ Save your spot ➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1977502652... #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree #CreativeCommons

Welcome to the public domain, THE HIDDEN STAIRCASE (1930), Nancy Drew’s second puzzling case. 🧩 But the clues all point to Nancy’s next big mystery now being free for everyone to read & enjoy. Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree

James Boyle explains why concentration of market power is dangerous—but when oligopoly locks arms with IP, it becomes a near-unbreakable set of manacles around the #publicdomain.⛓️ 🎙️ Learn more in the latest Future Knowledge #podcast. 🎧 Listen now ⤵️ futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the...

🚨 DEADLINE DAY 🚨 Our 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest closes today! 🎥 Last chance to submit your 2–3 minute short film utilizing at least 1 piece of #publicdomain material from 1930! 📆 Submit by 11:59 PM PT, Jan 7, 2026 💰 First prize: $1,500 🔗 Details 👉 blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...

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🎉 Welcome to the Public Domain, COMPOSITION WITH RED, BLUE, AND YELLOW (1930) 🎨 🖼️ Piet Mondrian’s most iconic painting is Neoplasticism in refined form with primary colors, black lines, & asymmetrical balance distilled to essentials. Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay

🎬 Filmmakers! ⚠️ 1 day left to enter the Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest! 🎥 Submit your 2–3 minute short film using at least 1 piece of #publicdomain material from 1930 🎼🎶🎭📚 📆 Deadline: January 7, 2026 💰 First prize: $1,500 🔗 Details 👉 blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...

🎉 Welcome to the Public Domain, MURDER! (1930) 🔍🪒 🎬 Hitchcock’s sound thriller stands out for its innovative audio, especially the shaving scene, where an inner monologue unfolds aloud & changes the course of the case. Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree

Now that these works have entered the public domain, put them to good use in our annual Public Domain Film Remix Contest: blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2... Submit your short film by 11:59pm PST on January 7.

Celebrate all the works that have moved into the public domain at our virtual party on January 21! 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1977502652...

🎼 Welcome to the Public Domain, IT HAPPENED IN MONTEREY (1930) 🇲🇽 🎶 The popular song by Billy Rose & Mabel Wayne became a hit of the era & was memorably featured in Universal’s musical revue KING OF JAZZ the same year. Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree

Welcome to the Public Domain, MOROCCO (1930) 🎩 🎥 Marlene Dietrich was bending the rules as she pleased. See her iconic suit & daring kiss in this pre-Code classic. 🌸💋 Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain #CopyrightFree

Welcome to the Public Domain, STRONG POISON (1930) ☠️ 📚 With a cover like this, how could we not be intrigued? Read the first story starring Harriet Vane as she stands trial for poisoning her lover & meets Lord Peter Wimsey. Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay

Welcome to the Public Domain, AS I LAY DYING (1930) 📖 🧠 William Faulkner’s groundbreaking modernist novel uses multiple narrators & stream-of-consciousness storytelling to reshape American literature. Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain #CopyrightFree

Welcome to the Public Domain, ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (1930) 🎖️ 🎬 The third film to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards is a realistic look at World War I. Experience the first filmed adaptation now in the #publicdomain. Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay

Welcome to the Public Domain, I GOT RHYTHM (1930) 🎷 Rhythm changes + a swinging 32-bar progression x now free for everyone to play = remix & rediscover! Who could ask for anything more? Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain #CopyrightFree

Welcome to the Public Domain, GEORGIA ON MY MIND (1930) 🎶 The song that captured hearts & became a state anthem in 1979—and now, in 2026, it belongs to everyone. Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain #CopyrightFree

Welcome to the Public Domain, ARCTIC ANTICS (1930) ❄️ 🐧 Another 10 Silly Symphony shorts join the public domain. No rattling bones like last year's THE SKELETON DANCE, but we do get up to some Arctic Antics 🐻❄️ Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain

Welcome to the Public Domain, ANIMAL CRACKERS (1930) 🎭 😂 Nothing to do with soup. The Marx Brothers return in this 1930 adaptation of their stage musical. Laughs abound in the public domain. Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree

Welcome to the Public Domain, MURDER AT THE VICARAGE (1930), starring Miss Marple 🔍 🧶 Agatha Christie’s other famous detective appeared in this, her first full-length novel. Uncover the killer in this newly #publicdomain work. Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay

Welcome to the public domain: KING OF JAZZ (1930) 🎷 🎙️ Bing Crosby’s first on-screen appearance, as a member of the Rhythm Boys, performing in this early sound-era jazz moment filmed in two-strip Technicolor! Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree

Welcome to the Public Domain, THE MALTESE FALCON (1930) 🦅💎 🕵️ Sam Spade is on the Case of the Disappearing Copyright as The Maltese Falcon novel joins the public domain. Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree

Welcome to the Public Domain, THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT COULD (1930) 🚂 💪 Choo Choo Choo! We all learned about perseverance & trying from this iconic train. She thought she could, and she did 🥹 Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree

Welcome to the Public Domain, THE PICNIC (1930) 🐕 🐾 Little Rover barked onto the scene as Minnie’s dog in THE PICNIC (1930). He’d get a new name (Pluto) & a new owner, Mickey Mouse, the following year. Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree

Welcome to the public domain, THE SECRET OF THE OLD CLOCK (1930), the first appearance of Nancy Drew 🔎🕰️ 👧 It’s no mystery why people are excited — the first four Nancy Drew Mystery Stories are now in the public domain! Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree

"Digitized audio of Guy Lombardo's NYE Party at the Waldorf-Astoria, December 31st, 1967. Includes midnight report at Times Square, and ball drop, reported by Bill Beutel. No commercials, and was taped directly at the Waldorf, and not on TV. Aired on ABC originally." archive.org/details/12-3...

Welcome to the public domain, DIZZY DISHES (1930), the first appearance of Betty Boop! ⭐️ Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay

🥳 Welcome to the Public Domain: creative works from 1930 & sound recordings published in 1925! Duke Law's Center for the Study of the Public Domain has highlighted some of the most anticipated works entering the #publicdomain in 2026! More ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... @dukelaw.bsky.social

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Remix these works for a chance at fame & glory! Submissions are still open for the 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest: blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...

⏰ 12 HOURS TO GO 👀 When the new year begins, so does #PublicDomainDay2026. At 12:00 a.m. ET, iconic books, films, and music move into the public domain—and we’ll be sharing highlights #here all night long. 🔔 Set your reminder ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai...

Cool stuff entering public domain: Betty Boop Nancy Drew + her first 5 novels The Maltese Falcon novel Disney's first iteration of Pluto as "Rover" The first fully voiced Academy Best Picture: All Quiet on the Western Front The Marx Brothers' Animal Crackers Dream a Little Dream of Me I Got Rhythm

Happy #PublicDomainDay 2026 to all who celebrate. (Which should be all of us)

🕛 At midnight, new creative works enter the public domain in the US. 🎙️ In the latest Future Knowledge podcast, James Boyle (The Public Domain) explains why the public domain matters & how digital enclosures are quietly fencing it off. 🎧 Listen now ➡️ futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the...

👀 WATCH THIS SPACE! 🚨 Have plans right after the ball drops in Times Square? 🪩 Join us here! At 12:01am ET, we’ll start rolling out highlights for #PublicDomainDay2026 — iconic books, films & music newly free for reuse + where you can find them. Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai...

👀 WATCH THIS SPACE! 🚨 Have plans right after the ball drops in Times Square? 🪩 Join us here! At 12:01am ET, we’ll start rolling out highlights for #PublicDomainDay2026 — iconic books, films & music newly free for reuse + where you can find them. Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai...

From archives to sound. 🔵 Our new Future Knowledge #podcast episode features composer Erika Oba on her piece “Blue Lights,” a new work written to celebrate 1 trillion web pages archived. What does that scale sound like? 🎧 Listen ⤵️ futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/wha...

Meet a winner! 🎬 "WHEN I LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND" by @queline.bsky.social won 1st place prize in the 2025 #PublicDomain Day Film Remix Contest! Let it inspire your entry for the 2026 contest! 📆 Deadline: January 7, 2026 💰 First prize: $1,500 ℹ️ Details 👉 blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2... #Contest

Early in 2025, @SawLady.bsky.social helped us celebrate “Happy Days Are Here Again” joining the public domain 🎶🪚 On January 1, 2026, another full year of media & culture becomes free to share, remix & reimagine 🎉 Join our Public Domain events ⤵️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay

🌐 From a dead link, The Wayback Machine made history and culture accessible again. Learn how Tintin’s 1929 adventures were uncovered again last Public Domain Day. 📚 Read the full story 👉 blog.archive.org/2025/12/26/w... #Tintin #WaybackMachine #PublicDomain #DigitalArchives

🎬 William Webb earned an Honorable Mention in the 2025 Public Domain Day Film Remix Contest for HOFFMANN’S HONEYMOON. 🌙 Show us how YOU can remix the #publicdomain of 1930 in the 2026 #contest. Open now! 📆 Deadline: Jan 7, 2026 💰 First prize: $1,500 ℹ️ Details 👉 blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...

When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like: 💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon 🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels 🚂 The Little Engine That Could 🎩 Morocco 🍑 Georgia on My Mind and many more! 🧵👇

Festive 1950s holidays 🎄 From decorating the home & wrapping gifts to Christmas morning delights 🎁🚂 🎞️ Carefully preserved #homemovies like this capture cozy fall & winter family moments, safeguarding them for future generations. 👀 Full film ⤵️ archive.org/details/2025... @footage.bsky.social

Warm yourself by the virtual fireplace in this cosy 16-color EGA #Christmas scene. No MS-DOS or floppy 💾 drive required. Thanks to software preservation, it's still crackling on the Internet Archive. ✉️ Open the full 1986 Sierra On-Line "A Computer Christmas" card ⤵️ archive.org/details/sier...

'Twas the night before #Christmas… DOS-style 🎄💾 In 1987, PC Life Magazine gifted us with ’Twas the Night Before Christmas: Animated Musical Christmas Disk — a charmingly low-res, CGA 4-color holiday e-card. Play it in your browser ⤵️ archive.org/details/twas... #HappyHolidays #HolidayGames

What does 1 trillion web pages sound like? 🎶 In the latest Future Knowledge #podcast, composer Sam Reider talks about “Quartet for a Trillion,” a new work written to celebrate 1 trillion web pages archived. Performed by Del Sol Quartet. 🎧 Listen: futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/wha...

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🎬 Filmmakers! The Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Day Remix Contest is open! 🎥 Create a 2–3 minute short film using at least 1 piece of public domain material from 1930. 🎶🎭📚 📆 Deadline: January 7, 2026 💰 First prize: $1,500 ℹ️ Details 👉 blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2... #publicdomain #contest

The internet wasn’t broken by one bad decision—and Cindy Cohn (EFF) says there’s no single fix that will restore it. Listen as OGs & advocates explore the past, present & future of the open web on the Future Knowledge #podcast. 🎧 Listen & subscribe: futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the...

❄️ ’Tis the season for exploring the web’s past! @InternetArchive.EU has transformed millions of Dutch websites from the #WaybackMachine into a festive, interactive Christmas mosaic. 🎄 It offers a new way to see the web & the scale & value of digital collections. Try it ➡️ display.archive.org/xmas