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  • books Agnes Catlow's Drops of Water is an 1851 book filled with beautiful illustrations of the author's interpretations of microscopic organisms Popkin
  • art Getty Museum posts nearly 88,000 scans of artwork with Creative Commons Zero license Rob Beschizza
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  • public domain Vintage optical illusion skull postcards Popkin
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  • law Bill Willingham's plan to put his comic book series "Fables" in the public domain gets murky Ruben Bolling
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  • History Works that entered the public domain in 2023 Rob Beschizza
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