{"id":6158,"date":"2025-01-01T10:35:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T16:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/?p=6158"},"modified":"2025-01-01T10:35:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T16:35:55","slug":"public-domain-day-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/public-domain-day-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Domain Day, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s that most wonderful time of the year, January 1st, when a bunch of intellectual property becomes part of the public domain. Here are some sites talking about what&#8217;s what:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.law.duke.edu\/cspd\/publicdomainday\/2025\/\">Duke&#8217;s Public Domain page<\/a> is a pleasant place to start.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/publicdomainreview.org\/features\/entering-the-public-domain\/2025\/\">The Public Domain Review<\/a> has an Advent calendar of works being freed up.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2025_in_public_domain\">Wikipedia<\/a> has a fine &#8220;just the facts&#8221; listing of major and minor works, for countries around the world.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2024\/12\/02\/films-books-and-artwork-entering-the-public-domain-in-2025.html\">BoingBoing&#8217;s article<\/a> gives a good overview.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>There&#8217;s a sixth annual <a href=\"https:\/\/itch.io\/jam\/gaming-like-its-1929\">games jam<\/a> that runs until the end of January to make games using these freed-up properties.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>And, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qwantz.com\/index.php?comic=4257\">this<\/a>:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/comic2-4455.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"735\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/comic2-4455.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/comic2-4455.png 735w, https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/comic2-4455-300x204.png 300w, https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/comic2-4455-624x424.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 735px) 100vw, 735px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And, if you made it down this far, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.futilitycloset.com\/2024\/12\/26\/a-banner-year\/\">bonus math facts about 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that most wonderful time of the year, January 1st, when a bunch of intellectual property becomes part of the public domain. Here are some sites talking about what&#8217;s what: And, if you made it down this far, bonus math facts about 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6160,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6158\/revisions\/6160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}