Happy Public Domain Day 2022!

image from A. A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh cira 1926 with the anti-copyright symbol over it

On January 1, 2022, thousands of creative works published in 1926 entered the public domain following the expiration of the 95-year period of protections established by U.S. copyright law.

How do you make a book free for everyone? Unglue.It

Open book, hardback books on wooden table.

Unglue.It is a nonprofit program that works with authors and publishers to place books into the public domain by agreeing on a price and then crowdsourcing the funds to pay the rights holder to issue the book under a Creative Commons license.