public domain

January 1, 2023 is Public Domain Day when certain works of literature, film, and music from 1927 become available to everybody.
Every year on January 1, a batch of new books, music, and films enters the public domain in the United States after a 95-year wait, free to be released in print and digital formats and to be…
The New York Public Library made an exciting announcement last week--it has made available more than 180,000 images of