Please join us on Friday, January 25, 2019 for a grand day celebrating the public domain!

Co-hosted by the Internet Archive and Creative Commons, this celebration will feature a keynote addresses by Lawrence Lessig and Cory Doctorow, lightning talks, demos, multimedia displays and more to mark the “re-opening” of the public domain in the United States. The event will take place at the Internet Archive in San Francisco.

For those that can't be in San Francisco, there will be a live stream of the afternoon programming beginning Friday at 1pm PST on the Internet Archive YouTube channel.

Schedule of Events

10am: Doors Open

10am–12:45pm: Hands-on demos, tastings, screenings and copyright advice! Check out every room for fascinating projects featuring media from the public domain.

11:45am–1:00pm: Lunch on your own in the Richmond District

1–6pm: Panels, Keynote Speakers & Lightning Talks in Great Room

6–7:30pm: Reception in the Foyer

6:15–7:30 pm: Music, silent films and dancing lessons in the Great Room

Demo and Project Stations

• Live 1920s music by Brother Spellbinder Band
• 1923 Mugshot photo booth
• Remix the Public Domain with trash.app
• Public Domain Temporary Tattoos
• 1923 Tea Party--recipes from the Internet Archive
• 1923 Book Digitization by Internet Archive
• Queer.Archive.Work-- 1923 Edition
• Live music by Brother Spellbinder Band, playing a set of 1920s music
• Silent films from 1923
• Prelinger Archives
• Authors Alliance
• California Digital Library Legislative Project
• Center for the Study of the Public Domain — Tales from the Public Domain!
• Cleveland Museum of Art — Best Practices for Open Access
• Copyright First Responders, Harvard University
• Creative Commons Search Beta
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• LightHouse for the Blind & Visually Impaired
• Open Library
• The Great 78 Project
• Wikimedia Foundation — How well do you know the public domain?

Afternoon Program

1-1:15pm – Welcome by Brewster Kahle, Ryan Merkley, Wendy Hanamura

1:15-2pm – Kickoff presentations by the Center for the Study of the Public Domain with Jamie Boyle, Jennifer Jenkins, Michael Wolfe

2-2:30pm – Keynote: Lawrence Lessig, Harvard Law School

2:30-3:30pm – Lightning talks I