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These photos by Mia Terracotta capture the fun at the 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest Screening & Party held at the @internetarchive 🏛️
Missed it? 📡 Watch the recorded livestream ⤵️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol9Xc-D5U-8
Congrats to "HOW’S THE PLAY GOING?" by Noel David Taylor, an Honorable Mention in the Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest 🏅
An absurd comedy with the main character lost in time, disjointed in settings & confused by their surroundings, mirroring that strange moment when you realize you haven’t been paying attention to the film at all.
Full film ➡️ https://archive.org/details/hows_the_play
Internet Archive
The Hunters Enter the Woods (1495–1505), from The Unicorn Tapestries.
Source: The Metropolitan Museum
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/196a07ce-74cb-4b3a-a00a-e0ec4a48b11a
#hunting #dogs #forests #medieval #allegory #unicorns #plants #tapestries #art #publicdomain
The Hunters Enter the Woods (1495–1505), from The Unicorn Tapestries.
Source: The Metropolitan Museum
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/196a07ce-74cb-4b3a-a00a-e0ec4a48b11a
#hunting #dogs #forests #medieval #allegory #unicorns #plants #tapestries #art #publicdomain
"The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use"
The number of art pieces alone is staggering to contemplate. Having them freely available to browse is incredible, and to then put a #HiRes #scan for all of them into the #PublicDomain is astonishing.
A lifetime of #museum visits to view remarkable #art without a lifetime of travel. No, you don't get exactly the same experience, but holy brushstrokes, Batman...!!!
Welcome to the Public Domain, MY PAL PAUL (1930) 🎷🐰
🎶 Oswald the Lucky Rabbit swings alongside a caricature of bandleader Paul Whiteman in this cartoon tie-in for the King of Jazz (also now in the #publicdomain), featuring music featured in the film.
Learn more ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/public-domain-day-2026/
Congrats "FARINA & THE PERPETUAL SHINE MACHINE" by Ralphie Wilson Third Place winner of the Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest 🥉
Allen “Farina” Hoskins leads an interrogative look at 1930 depictions of Black life. Archival sourcing, intercutting of uplifting & uneasy imagery, and the Hall-Johnson Choir’s spiritual score evoke reflection: “Unease follows.”
A thoughtful exploration of fraught history.
Full film ➡️ https://archive.org/details/public-domain-project-2026
Internet Archive
Congrats “BATTLE LINES ” by Jen Zhao & Aaron Sharp ⚔️🎨 Second Place winner of the Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest 🥈
A tongue-in-cheek doc(mock)umentary tracking the rivalry between Piet Mondrian & Theo van Doesburg over the diagonal line. 22 archival works, Coco Chanel costumes, and perfectly pitched narration.
Masterful editing of inspired sources… sends viewers to research further.
Full film ➡️ https://archive.org/details/20260108_20260108_0507
Internet Archive
A couple of months ago I read a thriller, Lost Man's Lane by A.K. Green, and I found today that it has just been released into the public domain: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/anna-katharine-green/lost-mans-lane
Here are my quick two cents. TL;DR: meh.
Congrats “RHAPSODY, REIMAGINED” by Andrea Hale 🎶 First Place winner of the Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest 🥇
A dazzling reimagining of King of Jazz (1930) set to Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Treating image as modular rather than linear, Hale builds a kaleidoscope of dancers, musicians, and deco sherbet-colored office scenes!
A fabulously fun, rhythm-driven triumph of archival remix.
Full film ➡️ https://archive.org/details/rhapsody-reimagined
Internet Archive
FYI I gave a presentation in Brussels last week at the European #PublicDomain Day 2026.
It's a more personal story than I usually do, about how easy it is to get lost in all the import advocacy work. Almost forgetting why you started to work on them in the first place. It is also a call to action, for people to enjoy the Public Domain & to use it to create new art. And for institutions to enable this. Especially in these, difficult, volatile times:
"The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use"
The number of art pieces alone is staggering to contemplate. Having them freely available to browse is incredible, and to then put a #HiRes #scan for all of them into the #PublicDomain is astonishing.
A lifetime of #museum visits to view remarkable #art without a lifetime of travel. No, you don't get exactly the same experience, but holy brushstrokes, Batman...!!!
If you missed our 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest Screening #livestream on Wednesday night, you can still catch the full celebration on YouTube! 🎬
🥇🥈🥉 Prize Winners!
🏅Honorable mentions!
🎉 And more!
See it here ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/live/ol9Xc-D5U-8
If you missed our 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest Screening #livestream on Wednesday night, you can still catch the full celebration on YouTube! 🎬
🥇🥈🥉 Prize Winners!
🏅Honorable mentions!
🎉 And more!
See it here ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/live/ol9Xc-D5U-8
"Incredibly enough, there is a really simple way to [protect artists from #AIpredation]…
The #CopyrightOffice has maintained—correctly—that #AIgenerated works cannot be copyrighted… That is why the “monkey selfie” is in the #publicdomain. #Copyright is only awarded to works of human creative expression that are fixed in a tangible medium.
…they have defended this principle vigorously in court, repeatedly winning judgments to uphold it." @pluralistic
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/18/tech-ai-bubble-burst-reverse-centaur
