The Getty’s downloadable artworks can be found on the museum’s website. Use keywords in the search bar to get started, like ...

How it works: You’re allowed to do whatever you want with the artworks because the museum has put them in the public domain.

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The move is significant for artists, art lovers, and entrepreneurs. While patrons still need to make a pilgrimage to New York to explore the museum's gardens and relics, a new announcement promises to ...

The Cleveland Museum of Art festooned its main facade in 2017 with the words from its original Jeptha Wade deed stating the institution is "for the benefit of all the people forever." The museum said ...

Celebrate the public domain with the University Libraries during the week of March 10! Works from Frida Kahlo, the Marx Brothers, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, and more all entered the public ...

Every year a new set of works enters the public domain and becomes free for people to creatively reuse, depending on the copyright laws of your area. The Public Domain Review, a nonprofit online ...

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Author-illustrator duo Jon Scieszka and Steven Weinberg debut How to Make a Collagasaurus, a how-to booklet inviting kids to transform the Smithsonian collections into zany new art forms. Jon Scieszka ...

For the second year in a row, January 1 brings thousands of classic copyrighted works into the public domain. Under U.S. law, works published any time in 1924 will enter the public domain on January 1 ...

January 1st is Public Domain Day. That's the day creative works over a certain age enter the public domain. Among other things, January 1 is Public Domain Day. That means copyrights expire on works ...