New Year, New (old) Books

Interested in seeing what’s now entered the public domain with the passing of copyright law? Here’s a good intro and set of links, courtesy of Motherboard. Can it be true that prior to this it was easier to get materials from late C19th than from the early C20th? Do you recognize any of those works and more importantly, do you care? You might, if you think about what it means to have access and when you understand that annually, from here, we will witness the extending release of C20th works into the public domain. Ah, the  world wide web…remember that idea?

 

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