Public Domain

Public Domain Day 2026

Our Artistic Director, Bjorn Munson, has been writing about the public domain since thousands of works began entering it again in 2019 after a 20-year pause. Since you know two of our series use public domain works heavily, we thought we’d post a version here. Note that we’re specifically talking about the United States, where,…

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Once Upon Many Times: Folklore Insights

It’s probably clear from our anthology of fairy tales and our anthology of spooky tales that we like folklore and mythology and all those sorts of O.G. (Original Grimm, et al) speculative fiction. So if you also have that sort of mania for myths and legends, you will probably dig Dr. Juliette Wood‘s whirlwind Q&A…

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Satirical Space Opera… from the 2nd Century?!?

We’re always up for looking for interesting public domain works we might adapt for Jabberwocky Audio Theater, which folks may have noticed with our series Through the Looking Glass and Through a Glass, Darkly. So currently, we’ve been looking at various science fiction, fantasy, and horror from the 1920s. But apparently, we haven’t been looking…

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Public Domain Day, 2021

Happy New Year! Since we’re somewhat affected by it, we suppose we might want to begin celebrating the fact that New Year’s Day is also Public Domain Day, which in the U.S. means that, as of today, any copyrights from works released or otherwise published in 1925 have expired, and said works are now in…

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