Esfahani, director of special arts projects
Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2025 4:29 am
The Internet Archive has spent 24 years collecting and archiving content from around the world…now is the time to see what people can do with it,” said Amir Saber at the Internet Archive. He was an organizer and judge in the January short-film contest along with Yuanxiao Xu, who serves as Counsel at Creative Commons, and Rick Prelinger, who is an archivist and filmmaker, as well as a board member for the Internet Archive.
The judges reviewed 47 entries and chose a winner based on creativity, technique, engagement, and variety of 1925 content (including lists of all sources).
Second Place: The Public Domain Race by José Domingues and Leonardo Domingues
Third Place: Seeing Cats by Alex T. Jacobs
Honorable Mentions
There were so many amazing films that did not win the phone number library contest, so below are a selection of artists that we feel should get honorable mentions for their short films. View all of the submissions at archive.o Posted in News | 5 Replies
People from around the world — many wearing their best roaring ‘20s attire — came to the Internet Archive’s online party on January 19 to toast creative works recently added to the public domain.
The event was hosted in partnership with SPARC, Creative Commons, Library Futures, Authors Alliance, Public Knowledge, and Duke’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain.
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“We’re celebrating works published in 1927 becoming open to all in the United States where we can legally share, post, and build upon them without permission or fee,” said Jennifer Jenkins of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke Law School. “You’re free to reimagine the characters, the events, the settings, the imagery, and use them in your own stories, musical plays, and movies.
The judges reviewed 47 entries and chose a winner based on creativity, technique, engagement, and variety of 1925 content (including lists of all sources).
Second Place: The Public Domain Race by José Domingues and Leonardo Domingues
Third Place: Seeing Cats by Alex T. Jacobs
Honorable Mentions
There were so many amazing films that did not win the phone number library contest, so below are a selection of artists that we feel should get honorable mentions for their short films. View all of the submissions at archive.o Posted in News | 5 Replies
People from around the world — many wearing their best roaring ‘20s attire — came to the Internet Archive’s online party on January 19 to toast creative works recently added to the public domain.
The event was hosted in partnership with SPARC, Creative Commons, Library Futures, Authors Alliance, Public Knowledge, and Duke’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain.
Watch recording
View table of contents & speakers
“We’re celebrating works published in 1927 becoming open to all in the United States where we can legally share, post, and build upon them without permission or fee,” said Jennifer Jenkins of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke Law School. “You’re free to reimagine the characters, the events, the settings, the imagery, and use them in your own stories, musical plays, and movies.