Why are so many new horror films based on public domain works?

This #FridayThe13th (fittingly), let’s look at what this slasher surge says about remix culture & the role of the public domain.

More https://blog.archive.org/2025/06/13/screams-in-the-vault/

This is the sort of thing that warms my hard-boiled heart. #PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain @InternetArchive

When I Leave the World Behind : Queline Meadows

this year’s top winner in the #InternetArchive #PublicDomainDay Film Remix Contest. These remarkable films not only reimagined and transformed public domain works but also demonstrated the boundless potential of remixing creative works to create something new.

All on-screen text comes from public domain books, periodicals, and sheet music. The music is Henry Burr’s 1915 recording of Irving Berlin's “When I Leave the World Behind.”

https://archive.org/details/when_i_leave_the_world_behind_remix

Auch @irightsinfo berichtet über den diesjährigen #PublicDomainDay und den Ablauf der Urheberrechte an den Werken von Frida Kahlo und Henri Matisse – ich komme in dem Beitrag ein paar Mal zu Wort: https://mastodon.social/@irightsinfo/113825720519431971

The newest episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio's weekly hour-long #AccordionNoir alt-#squeezebox radio program, a look at squeezy music entering the public domain in 2025, is up online and available for your listening enjoyment via https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/01/17/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2025-01-15-welcoming-to-the-squeezebox-public-domain-in-2025/

Der 1.1. ist ein erfreuliches Datum. Zahlreiche Werke werden #gemeinfrei – verlieren also den Schutz durch das #Urheberrecht, da die verstorbenen Urheber*innen mehr als 70 Jahre lang tot sind.

Dazu gehören seit ein paar Tagen auch die Arbeiten von Frida Kahlo und Henri Matisse. Doch unterschiedliche Schutzfristen, z.B. 100 Jahre in Mexiko, erschweren die #Gemeinfreiheit.

Mehr dazu sowie verschiedene Ressourcen für gemeinfreie Werke in unserem Blog: https://irights.info/artikel/public-domain-day-2025-frida-kahlo/32420

Auch im neuen Jahr rückt die Universitäts und Landesbibliothek Tirol im Rahmen ihres regionalen Sammelschwerpunktes mit Else Hammer und Raimund Berger wieder zwei Literaturschaffende, deren Werke mit 2025 gemeinfrei werden, „digital“ vor den Vorhang.
Mehr Infos unter https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/ulb/aktuelles/2025/public-domain-day/

#Digitalisierung #publicdomainday @uniinnsbruck

Terrific early work by famous authors among this year’s entries into the public domain.

Good Books Now In The Public Domain
#books #literature #cooyright #publicdomainday
https://warnercrocker.com/2025/01/03/good-books-now-in-the-public-domain/

Terrific early work by famous authors among this year’s entries into the public domain.

Good Books Now In The Public Domain
#Books #PublicDomainDay #copyright
https://warnercrocker.com/2025/01/03/good-books-now-in-the-public-domain/

Good Books Now In The Public Domain

In addition to being the first day of the New Year, January 1 is also known as Public Domain Day, when titles previously under copyright enter the public domain in many countries, including the U.S.

This year’s titles include a host of good books by some authors you might have heard of including William Faulkner, Earnest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Dashiell Hammett, Thomas Wolfe, Sinclair Lewis, Edith Wharton and Mahatma Gandhi among others.

Standard EBOOKS is celebrating by providing links to twenty of the titles available to download in different formats that should work with most ebook readers.

These book titles, were first published in 1929. I won’t get into the length of copyrights and all the issues surrounding that, but instead say this is an interesting collection of works, some early or first works by some of the authors listed above.

Keep in mind that on Public Domain Day a number of titles in other media also entered the public domain. Duke University publishes a more extensive, but not complete list that includes titles of plays, movies, characters, music compositions, art,  and sound recordings. The date for sound recordings is 1924 and includes Rhapsody In Blue by George Gershwin.

You can find more of my writings on a variety of topics on Medium at this link, including in the publications Ellemeno and Rome. I can also be found on social media under my name as above. 

Meine ersten Lesetipps im neuen Jahr

Umleitung: Neujahr, Altpapier, Urlaub vom Bewusstsein, Public Domain Day, Justizhacks und mehr

Auf jeden Fall auf dem Zettel haben solltet ihr die werktägliche Medienschau "Das Altpapier", die zur Zeit beim MDR beheimatet ist und hochkarätige Medienkritik von sehr guten Journalist*innen liefert.

Der Rest hier:

https://www.schiebener.net/wordpress/umleitung-neujahr-altpapier-urlaub-vom-bewusstsein-public-domain-day-justizhacks-und-mehr/

I suggest you support Standard Ebooks

“Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of U.S. copyright restrictions, and free of cost.”

See what’s free to read on January 1
https://standardebooks.org/blog/public-domain-day-2025

Please boost

#StandardEbooks #PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay #Copyright #Ebooks #OpenSource

CC @standardebooks

Happy belated #PublicDomainDay!
https://kottke.org/25/01/happy-public-domain-day

Public Domain Day 2025 in Literature - Blog - Standard books
https://standardebooks.org/blog/public-domain-day-2025
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42572573

* free & liberated e-books
* carefully produced for the true book lover

On #PublicDomainDay, 16 notable works of literature became available for everyone to copy, share, and reuse. Which one(s) were you waiting for? #bibliophile #VirginiaWoolf #WilliamFaulkner #ElleryQueen

Public Domain Day 2025

The works of the Austrian writer Fritz von Herzmanovsky-Orlando, of the Jewish Austrian writer and left activist Leo Katz, of the French linguist Lucien Tesnière (inventor of dependency grammar) and of many, many others are now in public domain.

The list contains an impressive compendium of human knowledge and creativity.

#publicdomainday #history #literature

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Katz

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_Domain_Day/2025_in_Public_Domain

Foto: Leo Katz

All of Frans G. Bengtsson including The Long Ships is now in the public domain!

#Duke University School of Law

January 1, 2025 is #PublicDomainDay: Works from 1929 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1924!

In film, #MickeyMouse speaks his first words, the #MarxBrothers star in their first feature film…From #comic strips, the original #Popeye and #Tintin characters will enter the #PublicDomain.
#copyright

https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2025/

Happy #PublicDomainDay! Here's my own short post and thoughts on the informal holiday.

https://www.chuggnutt.com/2025/01/01/happy-public-domain-day.php