Below is an invitation from the Internet Archive (IA) to celebration Public Domain Day with them. The events are open to all and are free to attend. I've been to a few online IA events and they definitely know how to celebrate!
The moon belongs to everyone, so says the 1927 hit musical composition,
“The Best Things In Life Are Free.” We agree! In January of 2023, a
treasure trove of new cultural works will become as free as the moon and
the stars, and we at Internet Archive, Creative Commons and many other
leaders from the open world plan to throw a party to celebrate!
Next
year, works published in 1927 will join the myriad creative building
blocks of our shared culture heritage. The public domain will grow
richer with books from authors like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Marcel
Proust, and Virginia Woolf, silent film classics like the controversial
The Jazz Singer with Al Jolson and Fritz Lang’s dystopian Metropolis,
and snappy musical compositions like You Scream, I Scream, We All Scream
For Ice Cream.
You can welcome new public domain works and party with us two ways:
Join us for a virtual party on January 19, 2023 at 1pm Pacific/4pm Eastern
time where we will celebrate our theme, The Best Things In Life Are
Free, with a host of entertainers, historians, librarians, academics,
activists and other leaders from the open world, including additional
sponsoring organizations Library Futures, SPARC, Authors Alliance,
Public Knowledge, and the Duke Center for the Study of the Public
Domain. REGISTER FOR THE VIRTUAL EVENT HERE!
The
Internet Archive will also host an in-person Film Remix Contest
Screening Party on January 20, 2023 at 6pm at 300 Funston Ave in San
Francisco. We will celebrate 1927 as founding year of the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, while watching this year’s
Public Domain Day Remix Contest winning
entries, eating popcorn and ice cream. Come dressed in your best golden
age of Hollywood inspired costume and walk the red carpet with the
Internet Archive as we celebrate the entry of “talkies” into the public
domain. REGISTER FOR THE IN-PERSON PARTY IN SAN FRANCISCO HERE!
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