Histoire Naturelle Des Dorades De La Chine (1780) contains forty-eight stunning engravings of goldfish. This was the first ...

“The AI’s creativity is nothing without the real art it was trained on.” While some proponents argue that AI is merely learning from public domain material—citing historic figures like Van ...

The public domain is material — from fine art to books and songs — whose copyright has expired (if there was one), thus, allowing the general public to use it without restrictions or permission.

From public domain illustrations on book covers to AI’s data hoarding ... and Renaissance etchings to populate cover art. Of course, it’s those neglecting to commission work that have created a vacuum ...

Professor Jennifer Jenkins, Director of Duke University’s Center for the Public Domain, joins WGN Radio’s Dave Plier to talk about the thousands of copyrighted works from 1929 entering the US public ...

Since 2011, the online journal and not-for-profit project Public Domain Review has been dedicated to exploring, researching, and cataloguing copyright-free historical material from across art ...

Beyond music, there's some surprising films, books, plays and ... re-imagine classic works of art and beloved IP can often misfire "When works go into the public domain, they can legally be ...

That’s all films, books, songs, and art published during the Roaring 20s now without copyright protection. Duke Law School’s Center for the Study of Public Domain has a helpful roundup ...

Each year on 1 January thousands of US copyrights expire, allowing creative works to be shared in the the public domain (copyrights on works—published books, films, songs and art—typically ...

In 2024, one of the most famous additions to the public domain was the first iteration of Mickey Mouse, which lost copyright protection. But 2025 is not far behind with several iconic books ...

All of the films, books, art, and sound recordings released in the entire decade of the 1920s are now officially part of the ...