[Public Domain Review] Happy New Year from the PDR!

Thu Jan 3 16:00:43 UTC 2013

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Dear all,

Just a little note to say Happy New Year and to thank you all for your 
continuing support!

2012 was a great year for us. We had the honour of being able to publish 
some really great articles from such literary luminaries as Julian 
Barnes, Frank Delaney, Richard Hamblyn and Jack Zipes, to mention just a 
few. In addition to the articles our image, text, film and audio 
collections have been growing apace, a particular highlight being our 
post on French 19th century visions of the year 2000 which was seen near 
on 250,000 times! We've had mentions in media outlets all over the 
world, including in the New York Times, Huffington Post, and The Paris 
Review.

Although our mailing list has grown threefold over the last year there 
are still lots and lots of people out there who haven't heard of us but 
who we think would love the work we do. This is where you can help. If 
there are people you know who you think would appreciate the project 
then please do spread the word and encourage them to sign up to the 
mailing list! It will help hugely in elevating the project to the next 
stage. Here is a link to our sign up page which you can share:

http://publicdomainreview.org/subscribe/

We are really excited about the year to come. We've already got a host 
of fantastic articles lined up on a huge range of topics such as the 
Victorian obsession with premature burial, the racier dreams of Emmanuel 
Swedenborg, the Wizard of Oz, and an 18th century medical hoax.

For those countries abiding by the "life plus 70 years" copyright term 
there is a great new batch of people to welcome to the public domain 
fold, including Robert Musil, Stefan Zweig, Franz Boas, and Grant 
Wood.[1] If you haven't seen it already please do visit our  "Class of 
2013" post where we give a rundown of our top pick of this year's new 
'graduates'.

http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/12/11/class-of-2013/

Anyhow, thanks for your suport and spreading the good word! Here's 
wishing you a very happy 2013.

All the best,
The Public Domain Review.

[1] For those in the U.S., due to different copyright laws,  sadly there 
have been no new entrants to the public domain this year. To read more 
about the situation in the U.S. here is a great article by the Duke 
Centre for the Study of the Public Domain: 
http://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday.

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