Notices by internetarchive (internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org)

On January 22, hundreds of people worldwide joined SINGIN' IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN, a virtual celebration of the books, films, and music now free to share, remix, and reimagine in 2025!

The livestream is available to watch: https://archive.org/details/singin-in-the-public-domain

🧶💾 Punch cards aren’t just relics of computing—they’re still powering knitting machines today! Discover how hobbyists & archivists are preserving this blend of tech + textile in the latest post from our Vanishing Culture series. ⁠

🔗 https://blog.archive.org/2025/02/12/vanishing-culture-punch-card-knitting/
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🕳️ #VanishingCulture⁠

On Aaron Swartz: “He stood for freedom of access to information, especially for scientific research — things the public had already paid for.” - Lisa Rein, co-founder of @creativecommons

Learn more: https://sfstandard.com/2025/02/08/aaron-swartz-marble-statue-unveiled-internet-archive/

Every 4 years, a team of libraries & research organizations work together to preserve material from U.S. government websites during the transition of administrations. 🗳️

Get the latest on the 2024/2025 End of Term Web Archive @eotarchive ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/02/06/update-on-the-2024-2025-end-of-term-web-archive/

🚧 What do dancing babies, "under construction" signs, and bubble-gum-blowing Furbys tell us about digital preservation? In the latest essay for the Internet Archive's Vanishing Culture series, writer JD Shadel explores the rise, fall, and cultural legacy of early Internet GIFs—and why they matter today.⁠
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🔗 https://blog.archive.org/2025/02/05/vanishing-culture-what-early-internet-era-gifs-show-us-about-preserving-digital-culture/
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🕳️ #VanishingCulture⁠

Since 2004, Internet Archive has collaborated with a group of libraries and research organizations on the End of Term Web Archive. 💾 Learn more about the effort: https://eotarchive.org/

Congrats "WHEN I LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND" by Queline Meadows.

First Place winner of the Internet Archive's 2025 Public Domain Day Film Remix Contest.

The short blends movies, images, music & text into a meditation on time’s passage. Explore all the winners: https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/23/2025-public-domain-day-film-remix-contest-winners-announced/

#FilmRemix #PublicDomain #CreativeWorks

Celebrate the public domain with the Internet Archive on Wednesday, January 22nd ⤵️

10am PT—Register for our VIRTUAL party: https://eventbrite.com/e/singin-in-the-public-domain-public-domain-day-2025-tickets-1104135491979

6pm PT—Come to the Internet Archive for our IN-PERSON film screening: https://eventbrite.com/e/celebrate-public-domain-day-2025-at-the-internet-archive-tickets-1117297439719

Popeye, Mickey Mouse & Winnie the Pooh walk into a bar...

It’s not a joke—it’s a creative opportunity! On January 1, 2025, Popeye joined Mickey & Pooh in the public domain in the US, along with other works published in 1929 and sound recordings from 1924. Now, anyone can remix, reuse, and reimagine these works in new creations.

But, character copyright is complicated. 🔗 Learn more in the latest Empowering Libraries newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/8f9604c74fda/empowering-libraries-17004192?e=a763dc3ae2

Original illustration by Wojtek Florek.

Support for archive.org comes in many forms - recently, block-disposable-email.com has pitched in to help us tackle various types of spam.

Big thanks to them for their valuable service! https://www.block-disposable-email.com/

🌐 Love HAM radio? Explore the fascinating world of amateur radio & emergency communications with this talk by Kay Savetz (K6KJN), on the Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications, a project of the Internet Archive. 📻

Watch now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egjdrt-ye1E

Internet Archive's founder, @brewsterkahle, spoke with
WBUR's Megna Chakrabarti about the lawsuits against the Internet Archive, the importance of archiving the web, and the "constantly renewed mythological goal" of the Library of Alexandria.

🎧 Listen now: https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025/01/07/internet-archive-wayback-machine-copyright-lawsuit

This year’s LOST LANDSCAPES OF SAN FRANCISCO casts an archival gaze on the lives of San Franciscans & Bay residents. Join us for a special showing at Internet Archive!

📆 Mon, Jan 13
⏰️ Doors at 6:30pm, film at 7:30
📍 300 Funston Ave. #SanFrancisco
🎟️ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lost-landscapes-of-san-francisco-streets-people-play-tickets-1139295185569

🌐🎙️ “The Internet’s Librarian”

Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, joins the California Sun podcast to discuss preserving knowledge in the digital age & his vision for universal access to all knowledge.

🎧 https://www.californiasun.co/podcast/brewster-kahle-the-internets-librarian/

#Preservation

Celebrate Public Domain Day with us on January 22! We're hosting two parties:

10am PT: ONLINE
Join our virtual celebration of the treasures moving into the public domain.
🎟️ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/singin-in-the-public-domain-public-domain-day-2025-tickets-1104135491979

6pm PT: IN-PERSON
Don’t miss this dazzling night of history, cinema, and celebration!
Internet Archive
300 Funston, San Francisco
🎟️ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/celebrate-public-domain-day-2025-at-the-internet-archive-tickets-1117297439719

Welcome to the public domain, THE SKELETON DANCE (1929). 🎞️ 🎶👻 Walt Disney Studios' first Silly Symphony cartoon is a wordless masterpiece of synchronized animation & music featuring dancing skeletons in a graveyard.

Learn more about the creative works from 1929 & sound recordings from 1924 that have moved into the public domain in the US in 2025: https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025/

Did you use the Internet Archive this year to research, borrow books, explore web archives with the Wayback Machine, or discover something new?

Your support makes it all possible!

Help us preserve knowledge and make it accessible to everyone, everywhere.

Consider donating to keep the Internet Archive growing: https://archive.org/donate/?origin=mstdn-eoy2024

#Preservation

Many resources are entering the public domain in 2025, like Popeye the Sailor Man, The Sound and the Fury and more. The Internet Archive is ready and eager to provide access to these new items for free use and enjoyment.

Help us maintain access: https://archive.org/donate/?origin=mstdn-eoy2024

One of our biggest preservation projects yet: Partnering with the island nation of Aruba. Collecion Aruba provides free global access to over 100,000 historical materials and cultural treasures, featuring newspapers, images, and videos that document Aruba's past. All are available on https://archive.org.

More projects like this are possible with your support: https://archive.org/donate/?origin=mstdn-eoy2024

This year, we worked swiftly to save legacy media sites like https://Vice.com and MTVNews before decades worth of valuable journalism could be erased. These sites are searchable on the Wayback Machine. 📰📺

Help us in saving these resources: https://archive.org/donate/?origin=mstdn-eoy2024