23 stories tagged public-domain, newest first.
322 points by CosmoWenman | 190 comments
Cosmo Wenman's Substack post criticizing the court verdict in his legal fight with the Rodin Museum over public access to 3D scans of Rodin sculptures.
202 points by momentmaker | 27 comments
Moving Image Archive, a searchable website of public-domain historical film clips such as San Francisco earthquake footage and vintage educational films.
352 points by yu3zhou4 | 94 comments
A personal website offering a curated collection of public-domain books under a cypherpunk theme, with links to Anna's Archive and LibGen.
1157 points by JSeiko | 272 comments
Homepage of Project Gutenberg, a volunteer-run library of over 75,000 free public-domain eBooks available in epub and Kindle formats or online.
325 points by ahaspel | 107 comments
Britannica11.org is a structured online edition of the 1910–1911 Eleventh Edition Encyclopædia Britannica, browsable by articles, contributors, and topics.
441 points by MilkMp | 87 comments
Show HN project: a searchable, exportable archive of CIA World Factbook data from 1990–2025; the page returned an HTTP 503 error when captured.
351 points by WithinReason | 55 comments
Standard Ebooks blog post announcing 20 notable books entering the US public domain on Public Domain Day 2026, now free to read.
410 points by apetresc | 83 comments
The Public Domain Review blog post celebrating Public Domain Day 2026, highlighting works and creators entering the public domain on January 1, 2026.
460 points by herbertl | 325 comments
The Public Domain Review's festive countdown of notable works whose copyrights expire and enter the public domain on January 1, 2026.
572 points by ron_k | 86 comments
A Distributed Proofreaders wiki memorial page announcing the death of Dr. Gregory B. Newby, longtime CEO of the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
443 points by bookofjoe | 84 comments
Harry Ransom Center (UT Austin) digital collection search page for downloadable vintage movie posters from the 1940s through 1970s.
1162 points by tosh | 238 comments
Homepage of Standard Ebooks, a volunteer project producing free, carefully formatted public-domain ebooks.
364 points by sohkamyung | 170 comments
AP News article on works entering the US public domain in 2025, including Popeye, Tintin, and novels by Faulkner and Hemingway.
373 points by Tomte | 297 comments
The Public Domain Review's festive countdown feature highlighting notable works whose copyright expires and that enter the public domain in 2025.
339 points by throw0101d | 48 comments
Public Work is a search engine and browsable grid of public domain images drawn from museum and library collections.
334 points by robin_reala | 118 comments
Standard Ebooks' free public-domain ebook edition of James Joyce's Ulysses, marking the project's 1,000th title.
414 points by coloneltcb | 120 comments
Open Culture article reporting that the Getty has released nearly 88,000 art images free for anyone to use however they like.
611 points by pauloxnet | 127 comments
Homepage of Standard Ebooks, a volunteer project producing free, carefully formatted public-domain ebooks.
347 points by coolandsmartrr | 160 comments
BBC News article reporting that Disney's earliest versions of Mickey and Minnie Mouse entered the US public domain on 1 January 2024 as copyright expired.
330 points by mortenjorck | 180 comments
Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain article by Jennifer Jenkins on Mickey Mouse, Disney, and the copyright history leading to Steamboat Willie entering the public domain.
569 points by perihelions | 139 comments
Open Culture article about the USDA's 1886-era commissioned collection of 7,500 watercolor paintings of fruit, now downloadable in high resolution.
672 points by Tomte | 252 comments
Bill Willingham's Substack post with a press release announcing he is placing his Fables comic series into the public domain, and explaining why.
386 points by isbn | 161 comments
Landing page for the Project Gutenberg Open Audiobook Collection, thousands of free audiobooks generated with Microsoft AI text-to-speech, with links to listen, code, and paper.