#public Domain

[animatedglittergraphics-n-more]

[artfromsaturn]

The Free Public Domain Party Pack

Mediafire | Ko-fi

I wanted to make a Clip Studio asset pack of public domain things I found on wikipedia while looking for inspiration & textures for my own stuff, so I did! These were made using various ads, books, & articles from the 1900s-1920s, so they're great if you're doing a period piece from those times.

The pack contains:

14 pattern fill brushes

8 Line Brushes

18 Stamps Brushes

17 Ribbon Brushes

+ a folder with a bunch of public domain paper (mediafire only bc it too big) & patterns, jpg & png

There is a .Psd file containing all the assets in the pack. This can be used & converted into brushes for any art program that can open .Psd files. If you do convert them, feel free to reupload them on your post (and link back to this or one of the other links so people can find the original Clip one if they want!).

[opencharacters]

It looks like Mickey has something to say

[amateur-climber-pro-shitposter]

Every year The Internet Archive hosts a competion to make art using newly public domain materials, and I've been losing my mind at this submission:

https://archive.org/details/555-milf-tar/

[peejalien]

Happy Mickey Mouse is mine day

[hell0mega]

people are drawing Steamboat Willie Mickey doing all this crazy shit and whatnot, but you could always do that. you can do that now, with current Mickey, just fine. it's fanart and it's legally protected. hell you could take Disney-drawn Mickey and put a caption about unions or whatever on it and it would still be protected under free speech and sometimes even parody law.

what is special about public domain is that you can SELL him. you could take a screenshot and sell it on a tshirt. you can use him to advertise your plumbing business. people have already uploaded and monetized the original film.

you could always have Mickey say what you want, but now you can profit off it.

[skiplo-wave]

Fyi

( x )

Happy creating folks

[squareallworthy]

Happy Public Domain Day 2025!

It is the first of January, so works from 1929 are now public domain in the United States. Here are some of them.

The Skeleton Dance, drawn by Ub Iwerks, music by Carl Stalling.

The Cocoanuts, the first Marx Brothers film (not counting an earlier unreleased silent film).

"Ain't Misbehavin'," by Andy Razaf, Fats Waller, Harry Brooks. (Only the composition is public domain, not this particular recording, which is from 1943. But hey, any chance to play a clip from Stormy Weather is a good one.)

“Rhapsody in Blue,” performed by Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra. (As a sound recording -- the composition, by George Gershwin, was already public domain.)

The Treachery of Images, by René Magritte.

The earliest "Thimble Theaters" comics featuring Popeye the Sailor.

A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway

And many, many other works, which you can read about here. Happy Public Domain Day!

[spectralid]

Steamboat Willie has been in public domain for the last three days, and yet I've seen no one post this Pop Team Epic strip...

[prokopetz]

Mickey Mouse's entry into the public domain comes with significant caveats. While the Mickey Mouse who appears in Steamboat Willie (and other media published in 1928 or earlier) is free to use, there's established precedent that specific elements of a character which appear exclusively in later works which still fall under copyright may be protected, if sufficiently distinctive.

(This is the basis of, e.g., the infamous "Sherlock Holmes can't respect women" lawsuit: the Doyle estate, which at the time owned only a tiny handful of the latest-written stories, the others having already fallen into the public domain, argued that specific personality traits which Holmes exhibits only in those later stories are sufficiently distinctive as to be the valid subject of an infringement claim.)

With respect to various elements of Mickey's visual design, such as his red shorts and signature gloves, the matter is clear: just don't use those for another few years. However, there's another thing Mickey's public domain iterations don't exhibit: speech.

The present consensus among copyright scholars seems to be that "a character speaking" is not sufficiently distinctive as to qualify for protection, but the vocal characterisation with which Mickey Mouse is famously associated may so qualify. So, if you want to be scrupulously safe, you can have him talk, but not in that exact specific voice.

Which raises a fun question: what voice would you give him? Wrong answers only.

[bagelsforall]

Public Domain Expansion

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[mattpresents]

[dd-the-man-without-fear]

My entire timeline atm:

[negativepeanuthoarder]