Public Domain Day 2025 Duke. Tweet by jennifer jenkins, director of duke’s center for the study of the public domain january 1, 2023 is public domain day: According to duke university’s center for the study of the public domain, the public domain 1) benefits the arts by allowing artists to use past works to make new ones, 2) makes education more affordable by allowing educators to assign works available for free online, 3).
Every year, on the 1 st of january, new material enters the public domain, making the works free to use, share and reuse. Duke’s public domain page is a pleasant place to start.