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🐭🖌️ On this day in 1930, the Mickey Mouse comic strip made its debut! See the very first strip below—and binge the entire year of Mickey comics in our archive. 👀 Start reading now 👉

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

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🎉LOST LANDSCAPES doubly celebrates this year — its 20th anniversary & San Francisco itself, center of creativity, style, resistance & freedom. 📽️ Join us for this LIVE in-person film program where the audience, provides the soundtrack, explaining what's playing on the screen. 🎤 📅 Fri 1/30 @ 6:30 PM PT 📍 Internet Archive, 300 Funston, SF 🎟️

Lost Landscapes of San Francisco: Creativity, Style, Resistance & Freedom

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Welcome to the Public Domain, FIT TO BE TIED (1930) 👔😂 🎭 George Burns & Gracie Allen are hilariously tangled in one of their early sound shorts. Their fast talk, misunderstandings & comic timing still snaps! Learn more ➡️

Celebrate the Public Domain with the Internet Archive: 2026 | Internet Archive Blogs

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Bob Weir gave us songs to sing and shows to remember. Relive decades of Grateful Dead live recordings in the Live Music Archive. 🌹💀

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

🎉 Join us January 21 for a virtual Public Domain Day celebration! We’re throwing an online party to mark the latest wave of creativity entering the #publicdomain. Works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 are now free, and we’re celebrating together. 🎟️

The Case of the Disappearing Copyright: Virtual Public Domain Day 2026

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🎉 Welcome to the Public Domain, THE YELLOW KNIGHT OF OZ (1930) 🟡🧙 📖 Sir Hokus of Pokes takes center stage in this imaginative Oz tale, sending readers from the Emerald City to Mars with rockets, magic, and fantastical inventions that enchanted audiences of the era. Learn more ➡️

Celebrate the Public Domain with the Internet Archive: 2026 | Internet Archive Blogs

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When works become public domain, anyone can reimagine and reuse them. 🚂 The Little Engine That Could can be freely reinterpreted—like this video marrying pages of the 1930 book to a Librivox audio recording. 📚+🎤 Learn more ⤵️

Welcome to the Public Domain in 2026 | Internet Archive Blogs

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Welcome to the public domain, THE HIDDEN STAIRCASE (1930), Nancy Drew’s second puzzling case. 🧩 But the clues all point to Nancy’s next big mystery now being free for everyone to read & enjoy. Learn more ➡️

Celebrate the Public Domain with the Internet Archive: 2026 | Internet Archive Blogs

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🎉 The public domain just got bigger! Join us January 21 for a virtual celebration of the films, music, art, & books newly free for everyone to use, remix, & share. 🎟️ Save your spot ➡️

The Case of the Disappearing Copyright: Virtual Public Domain Day 2026

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James Boyle explains why concentration of market power is dangerous—but when oligopoly locks arms with IP, it becomes a near-unbreakable set of manacles around the public domain.⛓️ 🎙️ Learn more in the latest Future Knowledge #podcast. 🎧 Listen now ⤵️

Future Knowledge

Future Knowledge | The Public Domain

What do jazz, gene sequences, and the World Wide Web have in common? They all reveal what’s at stake when our cultural commons shrinks. In this e...

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