The best way to hook your audience is through the use of images on your site. Many competing sites are putting out similar content, but finding the best picture with some of the best websites for free ...

The Internet Archive is using public domain digitization to offer an entryway into its over 500 years of historical texts already online. The Internet Archive is using public domain digitization to ...

From Flore des serres et des jardins de l’Europe A Gand (1845-1880) (all images courtesy the Biodiversity Heritage Library) “We need the tonic of wildness,” writes Henry David Thoreau in his 1854 ...

Are these heads creepy? Yes. Are they copyright violations? As of 2024, probably not. Credit: Daniel Knighton via Getty Images Jan. 1, 2024 is Public Domain Day in the United States — the day a bunch ...

Erin Carson covered internet culture, online dating and the weird ways tech and science are changing your life. Expertise Erin has been a tech reporter for almost 10 years. Her reporting has taken her ...

On January 1, three early Mickey Mouse cartoons entered the public domain in the US, and AI experimenters have wasted no time taking advantage of it. On Monday, a digital humanities researcher named ...

More than 300 years of illustrations from the archives of the British Library have been uploaded to Flickr Commons, and now the organisation wants help sifting through them. "We're looking for new, ...

Jan. 1 is Public Domain Day, meaning artworks from 1929 (or 1924 in the case of sound recordings) are now free for all creators to use and abuse to their hearts' content. The works of art, music, ...

For quite some time, copyright laws have shielded many iconic and well-known characters. However, since 2019, some of those existing copyrights have been expiring, meaning that those characters ...

Last month, we ran a piece about some of the most questionable uses of the Mickey Mouse character after Steamboat Willie hit the public domain. Few, if any, though are as off-putting as some of the ...

There’s a lot of confusion these days about how you can use images online. Lots of people think that because creative content, like a photo, has been published on the Internet then they are free to ...