#public domain 2023

[pintoras]

Lydia Field Emmet (American, 1866-1952): Portrait of Mary Callery (via Christies)

[cheshirelibrary]

On January 1, 2023, Frank and Joe Hardy will be in good company. That’s when a whole slew of popular books, stories and films first copyrighted in 1927 will enter the public domain in the United States. They include the Hermann Hesse novel Steppenwolf, Virginia Wolff’s To the Lighthouse, and The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, which features the final set of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories.

Also heading to the U.S. public domain on January 1 are the 1927 films The Lodger, which was Alfred Hitchcock’s first thriller, and The Jazz Singer, the first full-length movie to feature synchronized dialogue. Unfortunately, that one is also a racist mess.

And let’s not forget the groundbreaking and highly influential Metropolis, which is actually about to make its second trip into the public domain. The copyright in the Fritz Lang motion picture first lapsed in 1955 after its owner didn’t renew the initial copyright registration.

[claar-bookdragonwitch]

I missed it this year because my head has been i don't know where but, here it is, a whole ass month later:

BOOKS THAT ENTERED THE PUBLIC DOMAIN IN 2023!!! yay!

In alphabetical order...

Amerika by Franz Kafka (also known, in English, as The Man Who Disappeared, The Missing Person and as Lost in America)

Aspects of the Novel by E.M. Forester

Being and Time (in German, Sein und Zeit) by Martin Heidegger’s

Cogwea, The Half-Blood  by Mourning Dove

Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather

 Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis

Flight Without End (in German, Die Flucht ohne Ende) by Joseph Roth

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes / But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes by Anita Loos

God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse by James Wheldon

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway

Mosquitoes by William Faulkner

Naruto Hitcho by Eiji Yoshikawa

Now We Are Six by A.A. Milne

Oil! by Upton Sinclair

Pomes Penyeach by James Joyce

Steppenwolf by Herman Hess

The Big Four by Agatha Christie

The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Colour Out of Space by H.P. Lovecraft

The Daughters of Time by Josephine Tey

The House on the Cliff (The Hardy Boys, #2) by Franklin W. Dixon

The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown

The Secret of the Old Mill (The Hardy Boys, #3) by Franklin W. Dixon

The Tower Treasure (The Hardy Boys, #1) by Franklin W. Dixon

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre by B. Traven

The Tuesday Night Club by Agatha Christie

Time Regained by Marcel Proust

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Twilight Sleep by Edith Wharton

Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers

[the-irreverend]

My own stupid-ass way of celebrating our long-awaited ownership of Mickey Mouse.

Yes, I'm a Nimona fan, shut up y'all.

[zhalfirin]

A princess of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs

Full cloth binding, backed with french groove and paper onlays, coloured edge and french double core endands.

The typeset was part of Renegade's Tiny Books Bang event last year, but it took me forever to get enough distance to come up with my own cover instead of copying the wonderful bind that was exchanged in the event.

This wonderful typeset was provided by @tinwhiskerpress

Materials used:

case covers - grey board 2,4 spine stiffener - cardboard covering materials - commercial bookcloth (Duo brick, brown) paper onlays: bugra bütten (yellow, green), marbled paper (by Renato Crepaldi)

inner book bookblock paper - Schleipen fly 05 (115gsm) endpapers - marbled paper by @renato-crepaldi endbands - buttonhole silk (Gütermann), leather core (1 and 2mm) edge colouring - oak gall ink and interference chameleon acrylic ink (Nebula copper)

Size: ~A6

See WIP pictures here and some detail pictures here

[rjalker]

Flatland: An Adventure in Many Dimensions, a 2024 translation into casual English, is done!

You can read and download it completely 100% for free on the Internet Archive!

When it's done loading, you will be able to read it directly online, and the Internet Archive will automatically generate audiobook versions with text to speech.

You can also download and torrent various versions as PDFs, epubs, and editable documents so you can change the font, paragraph styles, and do anything else you want with it, like give everyone neopronouns or turn them into unicorns!

I will also be making my own audiobook version at some point. but that's gonna take a while since this is around 38,000 words long. You can make your own too! And you can translate this into other languages!

Edit: The "lazy" (unedited) audiobook is now available on youtube! It is in two videos, since my computer wouldn't let me combine them lol.

“https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpFcEwm88RUsMYmhY6DBYZcIvvKv6_ZS3”

Did I mention this is public domain? Because I hate capitalism and I'm poor and I want other people to also be able to enjoy books for free.

Buy the cheapest possible print version for $7.45 (I get $2).

This version is a paperback with no illustrations, no prefaces, a greyscale cover to make it as cheap to print as possible, so that more people can afford to buy it.

Buy the regular print version for $22.17 (I get $5).

This version is a hardpack with illustrations, the preface from the original author, and one from me.

You can also download all the HD illustrations included in this story here on the Internet Archive.

If you enjoy reading it, you can also donate directly to "TinyelFlatland" on paypal!

And if I haven't made it clear yet, this is Public Domain. You are 1million% encouraged to download it, print it, share it, do literally anything you want with it. I am 100% serious.

Now you can all join me in laughing at the narrator :)

Edit: oh wait lol. I realize I wrote this post assuming only people who already know what Flatland is will see it.

Uh so people who have no clue what Flatland is, here's a quick summary:

The narrator, who hides his identity using the alias "A. Square", is a resident of a world called Flatland, a world that only exists in two dimensions, where every person is a flat geometric shape. A. Square tells us the history and culture of his world, which is rife with bigotry that he buys into without question. Until New Year's Eve, before the first day of the year 2000, when a mysterious stranger claiming to come from the third dimension appears in his living room, and starts saying things that sound absurd, and performing what seem like magic tricks.

The original Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, was published in 1884 by Edwin Abbot Abbot. It is both a scathing political satire criticizing the systems of bigotry in Victorian England, and an entertaining introduction to the concept of more than three dimensions.

Edit: Now there's an itch.io page too!

Edit again: And you can read it here on tumblr now! @flatland-a-2024-translation and on Pillowfort!

[annaxmalina]

{2023} µ-Rhythmus

3d scanned version here: https://teia.art/objkt/842061

[dunmertwink]

2. Nature's Glory

[cosmicsponge2004]

Happy 96 YEARS!! to the debut of OSWALD THE LUCKY RABBIT

As with Miku's 16th, this Anniversary managed to be pretty significant despite not ending in a 0 or 5 (10, 15, 35, 50, 75, ect.)

See Below:

This is Oswald's FIRST YEAR in THE PUBLIC DOMAIN!!

Oswald is finally on a streaming service. "Trolley Troubles" and "All Wet" got Remasters availible on Disney+ in the USA

By Chinese Zodiac, it is THE YEAR OF THE RABBIT! Which I coined to be YEAR of the LUCKY RABBIT

Granted, this year's been drier for Ozzy than I expected this time 'round. But I can almost guarantee that he HAS to he present in fall!! Maybe he'll even be home for Christmas!?!?!?

I hope so

[cyberdragoninfinity]

One more batch of attacks I did for Art Fight this year--played around with more digital collage stuff for friends and had SOOO much fun :3c

[in order, for: @radiodontid , @sixhole , @weremars , and @cereovo, respectively!!]

[pintoras]

Laura Coombs Hills (American, 1859-1952): Rosa Hugonis (via Bonhams)

[mceproductions]

Best of 2023 TV Shows #14: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Our 2 entries for today in TV each had their work cut out for them with the strikes this year.

Though John Oliver did have himself some fun with 2 moments.

3 if you count the Chuck E. Cheese hidden episode.

Still fun either way.

SUM 22: Though hampered by the strike, John Oliver managed to deliver some very engaging content. Even secret episodes that were hard to find.

[merelyroleplayers]

Dragonmeet Podcast Zone logo by Soo Soo Kim

Let's start the week with our least surprising cast announcement...

@merelymatt is THE SUPPORTING CAST

Discover which characters from literature and legend Matt will play opposite the main cast – and his spin on them – in FAN FIC MISH MASH, a Merely Roleplayers live show at Dragonmeet 2023!

[cappurrccino]

me, a fool: it'll totally be easy to find the original version of the little mermaid in the library catalog for next month's calendar book :) it definitely won't be all disney stuff and adaptations :)

[rjalker]

Another new illustration for Flatland for where the narrator goes on a tirade about how if we let Irregulars (alternately code for disabled people, non-white people, queer people, poor people, literally any minority you can think of) exist in public, it will bring about the downfall of society!!!!!!! Like it wouldn't be so easy to just build bigger doors.

[ID: A simple digital drawing with a black border around it, showing a Square looking out a doorway at three other shapes. Two are Equilateral Triangles, and the third is an Irregular shape with an Equilateral front, and a very wide parallelogram back. Next to the square is a small bar showing three points of brightness with fading edges, lining up with the points of the Triangles in front of him, as he says: "To my view, they all look like Equilateral Triangles. Just at different distances from my eye." Then there is another bar behind the three shapes, saying, "But from another angle...the Irregularity is revealed.". This bar shows one very large white line, with a smaller grey line next to it, matching up with the backs of the shapes above it. End ID.]

You can download this, and all the other illustrations I've made for Flatland, here on the Internet Archive. They are public domain, meaning you can use them for anything you want!

[windienine]

Tumblr 200-Word RPGs 2023

Last November, we did an informal game jam for folks who wanted to write something for Writing Month, but would prefer to write fewer than fifty thousand words of it. You can find the complete list of participants for that event in this post here. There's also an off-Tumblr archive of entries whose authors gave permission for them to be preserved here, if any of those links turn out to be broken.

Last year's collaboration went over well enough that I thought we might dust it off again this year. To be clear, this is just for fun – it's not a curated jam, and nobody's judging winners or handing out prizes..

If you'd like to throw your hat in, just follow these steps:

Step 1: If you're unfamiliar with 200-word RPGs, read a bunch of last year's entries (linked above) or browse the 200 Word RPG Challege archives at https://200wordrpg.github.io/ to get your brain-meats properly configured.

Step 2: Write your own 200-word RPG. If you're not sure whether you have 200 words or not (and with RPGs it can genuinely be difficult to tell!), you can use the word counter at https://200wordrpg.github.io/wordcount to check.

Step 3: Reblog this post and append your 200-word RPG.

Step 4 (optional): Please indicate in your post whether you're okay with having your 200-word RPG archived off-site for posterity – if you don't say anything one way or the other, I'll assume the answer is "no".

(As before, as a courtesy to anyone who's creeping the notes, please restrict non-200-word-RPG commentary to replies and tags until November 2023 is over – let's make the actual games easy to find!)