🎤 When songs enter the public domain, they don’t just get older—they get new lives. 🎶 For Public Domain Day 2026, musician Stephanie Woodford gave three newly public-domain classics a fresh voice by writing new lyrics, reimagined for today. It's a striking example of how timeless songs continue to evolve and find new audiences. Learn more ⤵️

Timeless Songs, Fresh Lyrics: Musician Stephanie Woodford Reinterprets the Public Domain | Internet Archive Blogs

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The internet's memory isn’t a cloud—it's heat & hard drives 💽⚡ A comprehensive engineering teardown of the Internet Archive, and how it preserves the web at planetary scale 🛠️🌍 Learn more ➡️

The Long Now of the Web: Inside the Internet Archive’s Fight Against Forgetting | HackerNoon

A deep dive into the Internet Archive's custom tech stack.

Congrats “RHAPSODY, REIMAGINED” by Andrea Hale 🎶 First Place winner of the Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest 🥇 A dazzling reimagining of King of Jazz (1930) set to Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Treating image as modular rather than linear, Hale builds a kaleidoscope of dancers, musicians, and deco sherbet-colored office scenes! A fabulously fun, rhythm-driven triumph of archival remix. Full film ➡️

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Rhapsody, Reimagined : Andrea Hale : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Rhapsody, Reassembled reconfigures imagery from King of Jazz (1930) through collage, digital animation, and repetition set to a reimagined version ...

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Join the Internet Archive & partners for PROTECT OUR FUTURE MEMORY 🏛️ 📚 This #webinar introduces the growing international movement to ensure libraries & other memory institutions have the same rights online they’ve long held in the physical world. 🌐 📆 Jan 27 🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET 📍 Online 🎟️

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Copyright laws built for physical scarcity now wall off digital culture. 🧱💾 Glyn Moody (@npub15zu8...s7lx) explains the mechanics of these “walls” on the Future Knowledge #podcast in WALLED CULTURE, with Maria Bustillos joining the discussion. 🎧 Listen ➡️

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Future Knowledge | Walled Culture

While major recording artists are sued for alleged plagiarism and most creators earn pennies for their work, media industry profits continue to soa...

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If you missed our 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest Screening #livestream on Wednesday night, you can still catch the full celebration on YouTube! 🎬 🥇🥈🥉 Prize Winners! 🏅Honorable mentions! 🎉 And more! See it here ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/live/ol9Xc-D5U-8 #PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain #film @npub1xrj3...9q43