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Welcome to the public domain, THE BUNGALOW MYSTERY (1930), where Nancy tackles her third literary investigation 🏠
🔎 The case comes together in this classic Nancy Drew tale, now free for everyone.
Learn more ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/public-domain-day-2026/
🎊 Celebrate Public Domain Day with us online January 21! Our virtual event brings together artists, librarians, scholars, & creators to explore what happens when culture becomes free again.
Along the way, we’ll revisit iconic characters & stories from 1930 now in the #publicdomain.
How did #librarian Megan Lotts turn 1 trillion web pages into an 8-page zine? 🤯
The Internet Archive invited the Rutgers art librarian to celebrate this milestone with a handmade tribute to the web.
The zine includes the Wayback Machine logo, collection icons, a vintage photo of Brewster Kahle, and playful design elements—capturing the scale, creativity, and history of preserving the web.
See the zine & read the story ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2026/01/14/how-librarian-megan-lotts-turned-1-trillion-web-pages-into-an-8-page-zine
Copyright laws meant for physical scarcity now act as digital “walls.” In the latest episode of the Future Knowledge podcast, Glyn Moody ( @glynmoody ) unpacks how these walls limit access and creativity while benefiting big media. Glyn is joined by writer & editor Maria Bustillos ( @maria ).
🎧 Listen ➡️ https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/walled-culture
📅✏️ Mark your calendar!🕵️ You’re invited to a mystery-themed virtual celebration on January 21 at 10am PT. This year’s Public Domain Day event pursues The Case of the Disappearing Copyright.
Expect detectives, jazz-age culture, classic films, & more newly-free works from 1930.
🎷🧬🌐 James Boyle connects jazz riffs, gene sequences & the early web to one core idea in THE PUBLIC DOMAIN: creativity depends on a shared cultural commons, and that commons is quietly shrinking.
🎙️ Hear how expanding IP rights can fence off culture itself on the Future Knowledge #podcast.
🎧 Listen now ➡️ https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the-public-domain
Celebrate the public domain on Jan 21, 2026! 🕵️🔍
“The Case of the Disappearing Copyright” is a virtual event — FREE to attend! Come explore what enters the public domain & why it matters.
📅 Wed Jan 21
🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍ONLINE
🎟️ Register ⤵️
https://blog.archive.org/event/the-case-of-the-disappearing-copyright-virtual-public-domain-day-2026/
OMG you can still download the Godzilla roar .wav file from 1998 thanks to @internetarchive
https://web.archive.org/web/19980501170512fw_/http://godzilla.com/godzilla_www/dwlds_roar.html
🐭🖌️ On this day in 1930, the Mickey Mouse comic strip made its debut! See the very first strip below—and binge the entire year of Mickey comics in our archive.
👀 Start reading now 👉 https://archive.org/details/%40iasocial/lists/8/mickey-mouse-comic-strip-(1930)?sort=date
🎉LOST LANDSCAPES doubly celebrates this year — its 20th anniversary & San Francisco itself, center of creativity, style, resistance & freedom.
📽️ Join us for this LIVE in-person film program where the audience, provides the soundtrack, explaining what's playing on the screen. 🎤
📅 Fri 1/30 @ 6:30 PM PT
📍 Internet Archive, 300 Funston, SF
🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/event/lost-landscapes-of-san-francisco-creativity-style-resistance-freedom/
Welcome to the Public Domain, FIT TO BE TIED (1930) 👔😂
🎭 George Burns & Gracie Allen are hilariously tangled in one of their early sound shorts. Their fast talk, misunderstandings & comic timing still snaps!
Learn more ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/public-domain-day-2026/
Bob Weir gave us songs to sing and shows to remember. Relive decades of Grateful Dead live recordings in the Live Music Archive. 🌹💀 https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead
🎉 Join us January 21 for a virtual Public Domain Day celebration! We’re throwing an online party to mark the latest wave of creativity entering the #publicdomain.
Works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 are now free, and we’re celebrating together.
🎉 Welcome to the Public Domain, THE YELLOW KNIGHT OF OZ (1930) 🟡🧙
📖 Sir Hokus of Pokes takes center stage in this imaginative Oz tale, sending readers from the Emerald City to Mars with rockets, magic, and fantastical inventions that enchanted audiences of the era.
Learn more ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/public-domain-day-2026
When works become public domain, anyone can reimagine and reuse them.
🚂 The Little Engine That Could can be freely reinterpreted—like this video marrying pages of the 1930 book to a Librivox audio recording. 📚+🎤
Learn more ⤵️
https://blog.archive.org/2026/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2026/
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 ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/public-domain-day-2026/
🎉 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 ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/event/the-case-of-the-disappearing-copyright-virtual-public-domain-day-2026/
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 public domain.⛓️
🎙️ Learn more in the latest Future Knowledge #podcast.
🎧 Listen now ⤵️ https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the-public-domain
🚨 DEADLINE DAY 🚨 The Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest closes today!
🎥 Last chance to submit your 2–3 minute short film utilizing at least 1 piece of public domain material from 1930!
📆 Entry deadline: 11:59 PM PT, Jan 7, 2026 —TODAY
💰 First prize: $1,500
🔗 Details 👉 https://blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2026-public-domain-day-remix-contest