The year 2024 is just two months away. It’s a milestone year, not least because a lot of creative works will be entering the public domain, including some very famous ones, and a lot of lesser known ones that have a new chance to be enjoyed, shared, and reused. In the United States, this will include sound recordings first released in 1923, and other kinds of creative works first published in 1928 that haven’t yet joined the public domain here.

As I have for the past few years, I’ll be highlighting a number of these works in a #PublicDomainDayCountdown that will be published here on my blog, and on social media. This year, I’m hoping to publish it in both kinds of places at once. I’ve turned on ActivityPub syndication for Everybody’s Libraries, which should allow anyone else using an ActivityPub-enabled platform, such as Mastodon and other “fediverse” services, to follow posts on their platform as I publish them on this blog. (I’ll also, at least initially, be boosting or republishing them on my Mastodon.social account, to make them more visible.)

I plan to make a separate short post for each day of the countdown, rather than updating the same blog post repeatedly as I have in recent years, since I think that will make it easier to follow on social media as well as on Everybody’s Libraries. But I may adjust how I publish new items as I go along, if I learn of better ways to do it.

My countdown to Public Domain Day 2024 will start shortly. Follow along at everybodyslibraries.com, or follow @everybodyslibraries.com@everybodyslibraries.com or @JMarkOckerbloom@mastodon.social from your favorite Fediverse platform. I hope you enjoy anticipating and celebrating the imminent arrivals to the public domain!