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 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

The New Year has come, A fresh and rosy child; See! he clasps the hand Of a lady young and wild. With images by Walter Crane, and verse by his daughter Beatrice, this illustrated series of poems (ca. 1899) personifies the months of the year: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/crane-months

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

Happy Public Domain Day! At the start of each year, a new set of works is freed from copyright — ready to be shared, reused, and reimagined. See our highlights — Hannah Arendt, Albert Einstein, Langston Hughes, William Faulkner, and many more. #publicdomain

Happy new year! Why not start 2026 with some reading? All of our books are open access & available to read freely. Our rigorously peer-reviewed, prizewinning titles cover a wide range of topics so you'll be sure to find something of interest: buff.ly/lPaKuSN Happy browsing! #OpenAccess #OAbooks

Happy #PublicDomainDay, everyone! As of today, thousands of copyrighted works from 1930 have entered the U.S. public domain, including Animal Crackers, The Maltese Falcon & I Got Rhythm. More info via Duke University's Center for the Study of the #PublicDomain: web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd... 🗃️📜

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, 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, 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, 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

THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT COULD by Watty Piper (the version most people know) is inspired by earlier versions including one called "The Pony Engine" ...and you can listen to it as read by Boris Karloff (!) at @archive.org: archive.org/details/lp_l... ...details: fabelizing.blogspot.com/2025/12/1930...

Happy #PublicDomainDay! I've created an audio recording of THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT COULD and uploaded the audio to the @archive.org ...and I've created a Readers Theater version, also available at the Archive! details and embedded audio from the Archive here: fabelizing.blogspot.com/2025/12/1930...

thanks to @s-dudley.bsky.social, a super-fun project for #PublicDomainDay: Readers Theater of LITTLE ENGINE THAT COULD which enters #PublicDomain in 2026. here's a screenshot... I'll be back with whole thing on January 1! learn more about Readers Theater here :-) www.mindbrained.org/2024/02/open...

Ahistorical nonsense & completely distorts what MSIs are and do 🙄

Earlier this year, we celebrated SINGIN' IN THE RAIN entering the #publicdomain—but it was just one moment in a much bigger story. ☔️ On January 1, 2026, even more culture joins the public domain. Want to celebrate what’s next? Join our events ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay

From "Shtetl, My Destroyed Home: A Remembrance" (1922), a set of 30 lithographs by Jewish artist Issachar Ber Ryback, who died #onthisday in 1935. The series pictures Ryback's village in Ukraine before it was destroyed in the pogroms following WW1: publicdomainreview.org/collection/s...

shifting from Americas to Europe, a lovely book entering #PublicDomain in 2026: TALES OF A BASQUE GRANDMOTHER by Frances Carpenter the first of her "Grandmother" books :-) borrow it now at @archive.org archive.org/details/tale... details: fabelizing.blogspot.com/2025/12/1930... #PublicDomainDay

Geographical Fun (1868), a series of fantastic anthropomorphic maps of European countries, drawn by an unnamed 15-year-old girl who had the idea for the novel maps "when seeking to amuse a brother confined to his bed by illness": publicdomainreview.org/collection/g...

OUT NOW: 'Broken: Illness and Disability in Antônio Francisco Lisboa, Camilo Castelo Branco, Clarice Lispector, Victor Willing, Paula Rego and Ana Palma' by Maria Manuel Lisboa traces the lives and works of major artists and writers through the lens of 'being broken'. buff.ly/Pqt9rm8

L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) remains the most popular of the Oz books — not least of all because it’s the only one illustrated by W. W. Denslow. See the wonderful illustrations, and more on Denslow's eventful life, here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/w...

NEWSLETTER: Grab a hot drink and catch up with our December news, including a roundup of our year:

also entering #PublicDomain in 2026: the two volumes of RELIGION OF THE KWAKIUTL INDIANS by Franz Boas; it's available at the @archive.org: vol. 1 in Kwakiutl archive.org/details/reli... vol. 2 in English archive.org/details/reli... #PublicDomainDay details: fabelizing.blogspot.com/2025/12/1930...

Guardian in *Baicao Mountain* (ca. 1900), from One Hundred Portraits of Peking Opera Characters. Source: @metmuseum.org https://pdimagearchive.org/images/0fd3eeb4-983c-48e2-a1b8-ea6323fbaf19 #masks #costumes #theatre #china #opera #fashion #art #publicdomain

We're quickly sliding into the end of 2025, but we've got a final news trunk with #publicdomain titles, a #sharedprint initiative, and a hot tip on downloading a range of pages in a title. #digitallibraries #trusty buff.ly/VTEvVK0

this is so much fun to do! I make sure to go to the Archive when I am lucky enough to be visiting the Bay Area:

Celebrate the Public Domain with the Internet Archive in 2026! #PublicDomainDay is nearly here. Works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will soon be open to reuse. Enter our film contest & join our events! All the details ⤵️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomain #event #contest

also: so grateful for how @archive.org helps us reuse LibriVox public domain audio like here at my #publicdomain blog, you'll see random LibriVox folktale audio in the sidebar; this link for mobile: fabelizing.blogspot.com/p/widget.html you can listen to the audio right there in the blog! enjoy :-)

and another #PublicDomainDay book of Native American traditions, this time myths and ceremonies of the Blackfeet Nation: THE SUN GOD'S CHILDREN fabelizing.blogspot.com/2025/12/1930... already available for borrowing from @archive.org: archive.org/details/sung... ...and available freely on Jan. 1!

Looking forward to #publicdomainday 2026 on January 1, when a new crop of songs (and books and films and other creative works) enters the public domain web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd.... Let the re-imagining continue! #songwriting #songwriter

Amazon once “pulled a book off your library shelf”—internet pioneer Vint Cerf calls it shocking. 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... #OpenWeb

Celebrate vintage winter style with these "The American Girl" magazine covers, published by the Girl Scouts. L: Dec 1929 cover depicts 3 young women in colorful winter clothing. R: Dec1928 cover depicts a young woman with a billowing scarf, walking a dog in the snow. ⤵️ archive.org/details/@ias...

another major collection of Native American stories for #PublicDomainDay - published in 1930, entering #PublicDomain in 2026: SACRED STORIES OF THE SWEET GRASS CREE by Leonard Bloomfield borrow it now from @archive.org archive.org/details/sacr... more info: fabelizing.blogspot.com/2025/12/1930...

oh my gosh: PROVERBS. I love it!!!

🎬 Jeremy Floyd earned an Honorable Mention in the 2025 Public Domain Day Film Remix Contest for MOVING PICTURES AREN’T WHAT THEY USED TO BE. Show us your take on #publicdomain history in the 2026 #contest. 📆 Deadline: Jan 7, 2026 💰 First prize: $1,500 ℹ️ Details 👉 blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...

today's #PublicDomainDay book published in 1930 is a major collection of Native stories from California: CALIFORNIA INDIAN NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENTS #PublicDomain here at @hathitrust.bsky.social: catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/00055... details in this blog post: fabelizing.blogspot.com/2025/12/1930...

Planning your week? Add this #booktalk to your list! 📖 THE PUBLIC DOMAIN explores how we can protect the “commons of the mind” & why it’s as vital as intellectual property. 📆 Thurs Dec 18 🕙 10 AM – 11 AM PT 📍 Online 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1839697527... @dukelaw.bsky.social @mollysvh.bsky.social

sacred baboons of Egypt:

From BL Sloane 1975 (1190–1200). Source: @britishlibrary.bsky.social https://pdimagearchive.org/images/e03e33ba-ee4a-4c04-924f-94a87d55b794 #manuscripts #decorative #herbals #botanical #flora #plants #art #publicdomain

Entering the US public domain in 2026: Margaret Ayer Barnes' Years of Grace. More info behind window 13 of our advent-style countdown calendar for works entering the #publicdomain on Jan 1st: https://publicdomainreview.org/features/entering-the-public-domain/2026/ #PDin2026

moving on from African to African American folklore for #PublicDomainDay, here's an important piece by Zora Neale Hurston entering #PublicDomain in 2026: DANCE TALES AND SONGS FROM THE BAHAMAS at the @archive.org archive.org/details/sim_... more details: fabelizing.blogspot.com/2025/12/1930...

just what I needed!!! Trek hug!!!

Jerusalem, Plate 26 (1804 to 1820) by William Blake. Source: Yale Center for British Art Available to buy as a print. https://pdimagearchive.org/images/eec518f7-8c6e-479e-9891-429f760b37e1 #religion #myth #poetry #art #publicdomain

As thus he sat beneath an oak An acorn fell abruptly And smote his nose: whereat he spoke Of acorns most corruptly. Fables for the Frivolous (1899) by Guy Wetmore Carryl. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/fables-for-the-frivolous-1899

another important African folklore book entering #PublicDomain on #PublicDomainDay 2026: WIT & WISDOM IN MOROCCO by Edward Westermarck 2000+ Arabic proverbs arranged by theme! you can read it already at @archive.org: archive.org/details/in.e... details here: fabelizing.blogspot.com/2025/12/1930...

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

Another Christmas Critter for you - because nothing says merry Xmas like a kangaroo in a dressing gown and impressively large slippers painting a portrait of a stork #christmas #xmas #vintagecard #folkloring #victorian #kangaroo

another valuable collection African folktales, this time from the Bura people of northeastern Nigeria, entering the #PublicDomain in 2026: AFRICAN STORIES by Albert Helser available at @archive.org archive.org/details/in.e... more details: fabelizing.blogspot.com/2025/12/1930... #PublicDomainDay

Illustration by Ogawa Kazumasa, from Some Japanese Flowers (1896). Source: @gettymuseum.bsky.social https://pdimagearchive.org/images/59ee64bb-b767-4b04-be0d-1dd084d6cf92 #collotypes #japan #botanical #flora #flowers #art #publicdomain

This Scary Snowman also looks a bit melty and not a bit merry #christmas #snowman #victorian #vintagecards