Public Domain Resources

Digital Repositories and Lists of Works

HathiTrust Digital Library

Internet Archive

“Public Domain Day.” Association of Research Libraries. Accessed April 28, 2019.

“Public Domain Day 2019.” Center for the Study of the Public Domain, Duke University School of Law.

Smith, Balfour. “Spreadsheet of 1923 Works in the Public Domain.” Center for the Study of the Public Domain, Duke University School of Law.

Books, Journals, Articles

Bell, Tom W. “Trend of Maximum U.S. General Copyright Term.” Accessed April 22, 2019.

James Boyle, The Public Domain: Enclosing The Commons Of The Mind

Jessica Litman, “The Public Domain”

Law and Contemporary Problems, Volume 66

Lawrence Lessig, The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World and Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy

Siva Vaidhyanathan, The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System, Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity, and Intellectual Property: A Very Short Introduction

Information on Copyright and Fair Use

Association of Research Libraries Copyright & IP

Cornell University Library Copyright Information Center

Duke University Center for the Study of the Public Domain

Stanford Univeristy Libraries Copyright & Fair Use

Publicity for Public Domain Day 2019

“Class of 2019.” The Public Domain Review, December 29, 2018.

Alter, Alexandra. “New Life for Old Classics, as Their Copyrights Run Out.” The New York Times, January 6, 2019, sec. Books.

Douglas, Nick. “These 1923 Copyrighted Works Enter the Public Domain in 2019.” Lifehacker, April 13, 2018.

Fleishman, Glenn. “A Landslide of Classic Art Is About to Enter the Public Domain.” The Atlantic, April 8, 2018.

Fleishman, Glenn. “For the First Time in More Than 20 Years, Copyrighted Works Will Enter the Public Domain.” Smithsonian Magazine, January 2019.