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Sets de iconos de dominio público sobre temáticas que suelen estar infrarrepresentadas: accesibilidad, igualdad, derechos humanos, activismo...

Free Iconathon Icon Sets:

Iconathons are public design workshops hosted by Noun Project to create new icons covering under-represented topics for the public domain — free for everyone to use.

blog.thenounproject.com/why-ic

iconathons
The Noun Project Blog · Why Iconathons? - The Noun Project BlogBuilding and sharing the world’s visual language through interactive design workshops.

10 most interesting books that enter the public domain in 2023 via eBook Friendly [Shared]

The 2023 public domain book list is highly attractive. You can find here Franz Kafka’s Amerika, Now We Are Six by A.A. Milne, Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, Pomes Penyeach by James Joyce or Ernest Hemingway’s Men Without Women.

welchwrite.com/blog/2025/04/17

#books #free #publicdomain #2023 #Reading #read #shared

@tml @11011110 Are you familiar with the Nefertiti bust case?
smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/

It's not clear what the photographer/archaeologist is claiming here. The BBC mentions their photos were included (verbatim?) in the eBay description. If there was no attribution that's potentially a clear #copyright violation, but it could be solved by removing the photos and has nothing to do with the production or the sale of the replica.

🅰️ 📖 🖋️ **The Market Place, from Nathaniel Hawthorne's “The Scarlet Letter”**

“This image responds to chapter 2, where Hester leaves prison to endure public humiliation on the town scaffold. The text describes women resentful of Hester's beauty, who find her punishment too lenient–figures shown here below the steps.”

Felix Octavius Carr Darley | The Market Place, from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 'The Scarlet Letter' | The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1879). metmuseum.org/art/collection/s.

#OpenAccess #PublicDomain #Image #History #Fiction #Book #Bookstodon #Literature #TheScarletLetter #NathanielHawthorne #HesterPrynne @literature @bookstodon

This is CogDogBlogged: "More Fixes for the Free to Use Browser Extension, Dispenser of Random PD Image"

I get a little grumpy when I open a new browser tab and am not greeted by a random public domain image from the Library of Congress. It’s like someone taking a knife to my IV drip of small joys.

This is enabled by a little gizmo I have taken under my tech wing, the Free to Use Browser Extension created in 2018 by a student intern at the Library of Congress. It has not been updated, but I […]

https://cogdogblog.com/2025/04/more-fixes-free-to-use-browser-extensio/

#cogdogblog #FreeToUseExtension #publicDomain #PublicDomainRabbitHoles