How to Prevent a Work from Entering the Public Domain
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2026/01/20/how-to-prevent-a-work-from-entering-the-public-domain/
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2026/01/20/how-to-prevent-a-work-from-entering-the-public-domain/
https://netzpolitik.org/2026/public-domain-day-diese-werke-sind-ab-heute-gemeinfrei/ https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2026/
https://communia-association.org/2025/12/10/protect-the-public-domain-stop-the-70-year-term-for-non-creative-photographs/
https://library.harvard.edu/about/news/2025-09-05/harvard-library-shares-public-domain-unlocking-centuries-knowledge-ai Das hat mit Public Domain nichts zu tun.
https://engramma.it/eOS/index.php?id_articolo=5839
https://pdimagearchive.org/
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_Domain_Day/2025_in_Public_Domain https://blog.wikimedia.de/2025/01/01/public-domain-day-2025/ https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2025/01/public-domain-day-2025/ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025/ https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2025/ https://netzpolitik.org/2025/public-domain-day-i-wanna-be-lazy/ https://schmalenstroer.net/blog/2025/01/vorsicht-mit-gemeinfreiheit-in-2025/
https://douglasmccarthy.com/2024/11/anarchy-in-the-uk/
https://doi.org/10.17161/jcel.v7i2.19857 “The U.S. public domain provides an opportunity to increase the number of peer-reviewed journal articles that are open access.”
If you find an out of copyright book on Google Books, that they have a scan of but aren't making fully available, use this form to ask them to release it:https://t.co/hFRbTfOzwl It's simple, gets results, and enriches the #PublicDomain — British History Online (@bho_history) June 25, 2024
https://douglasmccarthy.com/2024/06/schrodingers-copyright/ “Outdated interpretations of copyright law, restrictive reuse policies, technical protection measures, and inappropriate use of Creative Commons licences are frustrating access to public domain heritage in UK museums. This leads to a bizarre situation we might call ‘Schrödinger’s copyright,’ where the same artwork by the same artist is labelled ‘in copyright’ by one museum … „Many UK museums still claim copyright in simple reproductions of 2D public domain works“ weiterlesen
https://copyrightblog.kluweriplaw.com/2024/04/29/the-eu-imperative-to-a-free-public-domain-the-case-of-italian-cultural-heritage/ “The Italian transposition of Article 14 CDSM Directive and the Italian Courts’ rulings reveal an attempt to impose new forms of exclusivity on cultural heritage that may go even further than copyright restrictions, thus becoming what scholars describe as ‘pseudo’ or ‘surrogate’ copyright. This results in violating the principle of the numerus clausus of … „The EU imperative to a free public domain: The case of Italian cultural heritage“ weiterlesen
https://blog.digithek.ch/ueber-20000-schellackplatten-online-abspielbar/
https://blog.wikimedia.de/2024/01/01/public-domain-day-2024/ https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Kurier&oldid=240761949 Zu den USA: https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2024/ https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2024/01/public-domain-day-2024/ https://www.hathitrust.org/press-post/coming-in-january-2024-new-public-domain-titles/ Einige für mich wichtige Autoren, die 70 Jahre tot sind: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfons_Dopsch https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Engels https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Losch https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Meier https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Spamer (Nur in den USA gemeinfrei)
Blog entry by Roberto Caso: https://copyrightblog.kluweriplaw.com/2023/06/15/michelangelos-david-and-cultural-heritage-images-the-italian-pseudo-intellectual-property-and-the-end-of-public-domain/ “The ex post facto judicial creation of an eternal and indefinite pseudo-intellectual property leads to the violation of the principle of the numerus clausus of intellectual property rights. One of the many paradoxes of this adventurous (and unscrupulous) interpretive judicial operation is the application of the logic of exclusivity … „The Italian pseudo-intellectual property and the end of public domain“ weiterlesen
https://www.si.edu/openaccess Via https://www.openculture.com/2023/04/the-smithsonian-puts-4-5-million-high-res-images-online.html Q
https://library.princeton.edu/news/general/2023-03-07/entering-public-domain Only 21 items!
https://www.vice.com/en/article/epzyde/librarians-are-finding-thousands-of-books-no-longer-protected-by-copyright-law
https://blog.wikimedia.de/2023/01/01/public-domain-day/ https://www.golem.de/news/kunstwerke-von-1927-im-jahr-2023-metropolis-ist-nun-public-domain-2301-170860.html https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_Domain_Day/2023_in_Public_Domain Neu in der Public Domain sind unter anderem die Werk des Nazi-Historikers Fritz Rörig.
https://ikmk.smb.museum/news?lang=de&news_id=1416
http://blog.archive.org/2022/01/01/welcoming-recorded-music-to-the-public-domain/
“On January 1, 2022, an estimated 400,000 sound recordings published before 1923 will enter the public domain thanks to a law passed in 2018. This is significant because, until 2022, no sound recording has entered the public domain due to copyright expiration. The UC Santa Barbara Library has already digitally preserved over 60,000 of those … „USA: Sound recordings now in the Public Domain – for the first time“ weiterlesen
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_Domain_Day/2022 https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2022/01/public-domain-day-2022 https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2022/ https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/1/22862358/winnie-the-pooh-sun-also-rises-enter-public-domain https://netzpolitik.org/2021/public-domain-day-was-kinderbuch-illustrationen-und-wittgenstein-gemeinsam-haben/ https://blog.wikimedia.de/2022/01/01/tag-der-gemeinfreiheit-2022-wittgenstein-schoenberg-und-pu-der-baer-jetzt-frei-nutzbar/ Seit gestern sind beispielsweise gemeinfrei die Werke des Philosophen Ludwig Wittgenstein. Gemeinfrei ist nur die Musik von Arnold Schönberg, nicht die Aufnahme.
https://www.hamburg.de/bwfgb/15685040/digitale-stabi/ “Anlass für die Lizenzanpassung ist das klare Bekenntnis des europäischen Gesetzgebers, dass an Digitalisaten gemeinfreier Werke keine neuen Schutzrechte entstehen sollen (Artikel 14 der RICHTLINIE (EU) 2019/790), das die Bundesrepublik Deutschland im Juni 2021 in § 68 UrhG umgesetzt hat.” Gut so! Zu Lizenzen von Handschriftendigitalisaten lohnt ein Blick auf die ältere Zusammenstellung von: … „Die Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg stellt Digitalisate gemeinfreier Werke unter die Public Domain Mark“ weiterlesen
Hatten wir schon mehrfach, ist aber immer wieder einen Hinweis wert: https://publicdomainreview.org/
https://meemoo.be/en/projects/public-domain-tool-can-you-share-your-collection
Heute tritt die Abschaffung der Bezahlung für die kommerzielle Nutzung der digitalen Public-Domain-Bilder der Spanischen Nationalbibliothek in Kraft. Alle sind eingeladen, sie herunterzuladen, zu teilen und sie kreativ zu bearbeiten. https://t.co/7vt4vhCMyh — Fachinformationsdienst Romanistik (@FIDRomanistik) November 1, 2020
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/18264644616/italian-public-prosecutor-says-project-gutenbergs-collection-public-domain-books-must-be-blocked-copyright-infringement.shtml
Omg, Public Domain und kein CC-BY-NC??? Herrgott lass das Schule werden ♥️ — Johannes Baiter (@jbaiter_) May 27, 2020
https://creativecommons.org/2020/02/24/public-domain-is-alive-and-well-for-now/