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The Public Domain Review
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The Public Domain Review
The Public Domain Review is dedicated to the exploration of curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas – focusing on works now fallen into the public domain, the vast commons of out-of-copyright material that ...
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Here you’ll be able to choose from our handpicked selection of Fine Art Prints (both framed and unframed), browse our collection of lovely books we’ve published through our very own PDR Press, as well as a range of T-Shirts and Mugs.
Essays
Every two weeks we publish a new long-form essay which seeks to offer insight and reflection upon public domain works and the oft overlooked histories which surround them.
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Explore the vast array of essays, resources, books, and other materials we have collected.
Collections
We curate collections of images, books, audio and film, shining a light on curiosities and wonders from a wide range of online archives. Leaning toward the surprising, the strange, and the beautiful, we hope to provide an ever-growing cabinet of curiosities for the digital age
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The Public Domain Review is an online journal showcasing works which have entered the public domain. It was co-founded by Jonathan Gray and Adam Green. It was launched on January 1, 2011, … Wikipedia
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Owner The Public Domain Review CIC
Factsheet
Available in English
Headquarters Manchester
Owner The Public Domain Review CIC
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674K Followers, 318 Following, 4,336 Posts - The Public Domain Review (@publicdomainrev) on Instagram: "Celebrating public domain works. History of art, literature and ideas. More on the main site, including 300+ essays. Visit our online shop for prints."
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New PD image resource: “Public Domain Image Archive”, a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images. Some very cool browsing interfaces! Well sourced, and with good re-usage info.
It's another very useful resource, but still contains some of the same (slightly infuriating) problems which other resources seem to be happy to live with - artists, especially some notable ones, aren't credited, with the images being refereed to as 'by Anonymous', making searches for specific creators hit or miss. If the site is simply reusing information from online sources this is understandable, but still... some of the images are signed. There are also very notable works omitted - a search for "curate's egg" doesn't turn up the source of the saying, although the drawing has been referenced somewhat extensively. A good start, all the same, and it can always improve in future. Really not sure how I feel about the search interface at the moment, though... I'll have to return to the site later and ponder why that feels somewhat awkward. More on reddit.com
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public domain and reviews
Unless something has changed, Amazon merges all reviews for a given PD work together, and they appear on each listing. That means that, if you’ve published a common one, you will eventually find many bad reviews. That’s because there have been a great many hastily thrown together PD works on the platform, and the reviews reflect that. In other words, if you were to publish an edition of Dracula today, you’ll find thousands of reviews on your book’s page that complain of quality issues from other editions that predate yours, and will continue to populate from editions of the same book that follow. This makes it tough to find much success publishing public domain works via KDP. Probably partly by design, as it effectively shunts them off into a nether realm to struggle together. More on reddit.com
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This public domain website has collected more public domain images than any other, including archive.org
I just found this site (PICRYL) and yes they seem to charge for high res images. BUT - they usually quote the source where the image came from so you can go the to source and look for the image there for free. (Because they got it from there for free.) You could also try a search by image to find it on another site. So you can use the site to search for free images but not as a free source. Or you can just give them some money to support them for providing you this helpful service. More on reddit.com
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Anyone been to Public Domain?
I haven’t been to the main room but I’ve been to the more casual neon tiger that’s in the back. It’s more simple with more straightforward cocktails and slushes but they were balanced and I would go back. It definitely made me more likely to try the main room. Most of the bad reviews seem to be people complaining about service and waiting for tables. I read that as new business still figuring processes out in the first few months. More on reddit.com
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Wikipedia
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The Public Domain Review - Wikipedia
May 13, 2025 - The Public Domain Review is an online journal showcasing works which have entered the public domain. It was co-founded by Jonathan Gray and Adam Green. It was launched on January 1, 2011, to coincide with Public Domain Day. The Review aims to raise awareness of the public domain by promoting ...
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Arts & Letters Daily
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Arts & Letters Daily - ideas, criticism, debate
Public Domain Review · Reason · Salmagundi · Salon · Scientific American · Skeptical Inquirer · Slate · Smart Set · Smithsonian Magazine · Spiked-Online · Standpoint · Technology Review · The American · The Baffler · The Daily Beast · The Dial · The Drift ·
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Public Domain Image Archive
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Public Domain Image Archive
Explore our hand-picked collection of out-of-copyright works, free for all to browse, download, and reuse. This is a living database with new images added every week.
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The Public Domain Review. 188,762 likes · 13,644 talking about this. Online journal & cabinet of curiosities showcasing the most interesting & unusual out-of-copyright wo
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20 hours ago - Explore The Public Domain Review’s 7,719 photos on Flickr!
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Inha
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The Public Domain Review - Images/Usages Project
La Public Domain Review est une revue électronique attachée à l’Open Knowledge International (précédemment connu sous l’appellation Open Knowledge Foundation).
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Francis Bass
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Public Domain Day 2022: A Public Domain Review Review – Francis Bass
February 9, 2022 - As always, I'm interspersing this post with some lovely public domain images. I found these all through the Public Domain Review, which is also where I've found a lot of the images in previous years' posts. Happy Public Domain Day! As of today, works from 1926 have entered the public…
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The Public Domain Review - YouTube
This is the YouTube channel of The Public Domain Review, an online journal and cabinet of curiosities dedicated to showcasing the most interesting and unusual out-of-copyright works available on the web.
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Juliaashworth
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The Public Domain Review | Online Portfolio
This site features photos, print and other artwork; books; film; and audio that is all Public Domain. This online journal is “dedicated to the exploration of curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas,” where essays are published on collections found within their archives.
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October 16, 2010 - Online journal exploring works from the history of art, literature, and ideas. Featuring 300+ essays — submissions welcome.
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BOOK RIOT
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Sites We Like: The Public Domain Review
April 3, 2014 - A place like Project Gutenberg is fascinating for its massive amount of material, true enough, but a place that curates and examines the world of public domain information is perhaps even more exciting. That’s what The Public Domain Review is, in essence, and I’ve been eating it up all week.
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Public Domain Movie
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Public Domain Movies |
The Kid Auto Race in Venice Charlie the Tramp comes to a kid auto race, which a director just happens to be filming. Charlie constantly gets in the way, annoying the director, cameraman, and public.
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What is public domain? - LibAnswers
The Public Domain Review https://publicdomainreview.org/
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Reddit
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New PD image resource: “Public Domain Image Archive”, a ...
January 9, 2025 - What are some of the most successful public domain projects that have found their own footing? ... Public Domain Review is an interesting online journal focusing on artworks, recording and literature that is solidly in the public domain.
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PICRYL
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Search, download and print PICRYL - Public Domain Media Search Engine images, albums, collections
This may mean that: (1) a copyright existed at one time but was not renewed, or the copyright may have expired, or the owner may have intentionally placed the Content into the public domain; or (2) the Content was never eligible for copyright protection because it was created by an employee of the United States as part of his or her official duties, or (3) there are no copyright markings or other indications on the Content to indicate that it was copyrighted or otherwise restricted; or (4) Get Archive LLC records do not indicate any evidence of copyright restrictions.
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Thepublicdomain
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| The Public Domain |
The UK cannot afford to let a legal ... Review (2011) Read the chapter. Ever been utterly frustrated, made furious, by an Apple upgrade that made things worse? This post is for you. (With apologies to Randall Munroe.) ... Duke’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain is announcing ...