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Building a new banned books exhibit for a new era
When I first created Banned Books Online over 25 years ago, I wasn’t primarily worried about book censorship. I was worried about Internet censorship. It was 1994, and the world at large was just getting to know the Internet, which … Continue reading
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Public Domain Day 2021: Honoring a lost generation
It’s Public Domain Day again. In much of Europe, and other countries with “life+70 years” copyright terms, works by authors who died in 1950, such as George Orwell, Karin Michaelis, George Bernard Shaw, and Edna St. Vincent Millay, have joined … Continue reading
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Welcome to everybody’s online libraries
As coronavirus infections spread throughout the world, lots of people are staying home to slow down the spread and save lives. In the US, many universities, schools, and libraries have closed their doors. (Here’s what happening at the library where … Continue reading
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More and better copyright data online for serials and books
It’s getting easier over time to find and use data on copyrights, and thereby to find and make use of materials in the public domain. Here’s a quick update on what’s new and what’s coming, in my projects and elsewhere. … Continue reading
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Public Domain Day 2018: The 20-year alarm clock
In Washington Irving’s classic story “Rip van Winkle“, the title character follows an archaically-dressed stranger into a mountain hideaway, falls asleep, and wakes up to find the world has moved on 20 years without him. He’s alarmed at first, but … Continue reading
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Public Domain Day 2016: Freezes and thaws
For most of the past 55 years, the public domain in the United States has gone through a series of partial or complete freezes. We’ve gotten used to them by now. A thaw is coming soon, though, if there are … Continue reading
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Public Domain Day 2015: Ending our own enclosures
It’s the start of the new year, which, as many of my readers know, marks another Public Domain Day, when a year’s worth of creative work becomes free for anyone to use in many countries. In countries where copyrights have … Continue reading
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