Come Celebrate the Grand Re-Opening of the Public Domain—Friday Jan. 25 10-7 p.m.

Why are people celebrating?? For the first time in decades, films, books, musical scores and images are entering the public domain!

The Internet Archive and Creative Commons invite you to kick up your heels and celebrate at the GRAND REOPENING OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN at the Internet Archive in San Francisco on January 25, 2019 from 10-7p.m. Come meet champions of the public domain including Lawrence Lessig, Cory Doctorow, Jennifer Jenkins, and Jamie Boyle. Remix and create fantastic new works using public domain films. Get your copy of newly released Queer.Archive zine by artist Paul Soulellis, explore the films, books, sounds and tastes of 1923, and dive deep into the issues of copyright and creative reuse with the top legal scholars of our age.

It’s the best New Year’s deal: Tens of thousands of works are now free of copyright for the first time in 20 years in the United States

Come explore our collections and experience the joy of sharing, remix, and reuse with this unbelievable selection of works, including those some of your favorite authors, including Willa Cather, Joseph Conrad, Arthur Conan Doyle, E.M Forster, Kahlil Gibran and Aldous Huxley. Watch a Charlie Chaplin movie (now free for reuse) or learn to dance that 1923 international sensation, the Charleston!

It’s the best New Year’s deal: Tens of thousands of works are now free of copyright for the first time in 20 years in the United States

Come explore our collections and experience the joy of sharing, remix, and reuse with this unbelievable selection of works, including those some of your favorite authors, including Willa Cather, Joseph Conrad, Arthur Conan Doyle, E.M Forster, Kahlil Gibran and Aldous Huxley. Watch a Charlie Chaplin movie (now free for reuse) or learn to dance that 1923 international sensation, the Charleston!