Not all borrowing is the same. From public domain illustrations on book covers to AI’s data hoarding, who really owns culture ...

The Public and Private Life of Animals (1877) by J. Thomas is a satirical book about animal life from the 19th century. My favorite thing about this book are the incredible illustrations. I can't get ...

Dahlonega is the town that put the “gold” in the Georgia Gold Rush. It’s like the El Dorado of the South, except instead of a ...

Hand-picked from digitised public collections and ready for reuse, the Public Domain Image Archive is the perfect antidote to AI. Not all of us enjoy spending hours trawling through hefty archives of ...

known as one of the actors in one of the first talking pictures in film history, The Jazz Singer. Although not every one of these songs necessarily has the same staying power as they had back in the ...

Containing 10,000+ items, the Public Domain Image Archive is a vast trove of illustrations, prints, scans, and more, all downloadable and free for use. The database offers a functional search that ...

The two classic comic characters who first appeared in 1929 are among the intellectual properties becoming public domain in the United States on Jan. 1. That means they can be used and repurposed ...

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