[Public Domain Review] Help to Keep The Public Domain Review Afloat!

Mon Jan 9 14:23:04 UTC 2012

Greetings Venerable Friend of The Public Domain Review!

Welcome to 2012. Public Domain Day on 1st January saw an exciting
array of new writers and artists entering the public domain in many
countries around the world, including such greats as James Joyce and
Virginia Woolf. It also marked the 1st year anniversary of The Public
Domain Review!

In just a year we have come along way. We've had over 30 articles from
writers and scholars around the globe, including from historian and
broadcaster Lucy Worsely, the writer Andrew McConnel Stott, and, lined
up later for this month, a piece from the novelist and 2011 Man Booker
Prize winner Julian Barnes. We have also amassed over 100 handpicked
items for your perusing pleasure in our collections of public domain
images, texts, films and audio.

In addition to all this, we are working closely with galleries,
libraries, archives, and museums around the world to secure the
release of more public domain material for everyone to freely enjoy
and share.

We have several really exciting things in the pipeline for this year.
We hope to launch an award to encourage more people to release new
freely reusable translations of literary works that have entered the
public domain.  We are also planning to create beautiful printed
editions of public domain material, curated around different themes -
the first of which will be 'animals'. And we would like to organise
public events aimed at the general public to promote the value of the
public domain to a wider audience.

In order to do these things we need your help! We are very grateful to
the Shuttleworth Foundation for supporting us throughout our first
year. But now we will be relying on our readership. With a bit of help
The Public Domain Review can be fully sustained by you, lovely reader.

There are two things you can do to help.

1. Become a Patron - if everyone on our mailing list donated just £1
per month we would be a long way to getting the money we need for next
year. If you like what we do and want to see it continue please do
consider donating: http://publicdomainreview.org/support/

2. Promote the Review - by encouraging other people to sign up and by
putting up one of our beautiful posters in your
library/institution/department, etc.:
http://publicdomainreview.org/publicity/

Thank you for your support and best wishes,

Adam Green,
Editor in Chief
The Public Domain Review