® (registered trademark) of an Article?

The Register is putting "®" at the end of the articles I looked at: e.g. https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/12/suse_runs_ms/.

What does that mean?

Boo-- an ad supposedly demonstrating something, but is AI generated (see the "player" getting into the front right door of this upcoming EV). Boo.

Public Domain Day short film contest by @internetarchive on NPR!

Public domain contest challenges filmmakers to remix Betty Boop, Nancy Drew and more

Nearly 280 filmmakers entered the Internet Archive's annual contest celebrating creative freedom without copyright restrictions.

NPR (www.npr.org)

2-3 minutes long films Winners are announced: https://blog.archive.org/2026/01/21/2026-public-domain-film-remix-contest/

A fav entry for me did not win, but is heart bending: https://archive.org/details/georgia_202601

"The Value of Public Domain Day"

a thoughtful piece on the economics and the loss by our overzealous locking up of our culture.

The Value of Public Domain Day

Out of roughly 16,000 eligible books, movies, or music, no more than five percent could expect to earn more than a total of $100 in the space of 20 years. The rest of the works—more than 15,000 of …

Authors Alliance (www.authorsalliance.org)

but please celebrate on Jan 21st virtual event during the day, and party in San Francisco at night: https://blog.archive.org/public-domain-day-2026/

media conglomerates are leading the way against open internet law by fining cloudflare:

Italy's "shadowy cabal of European media elites" ... "scheme to censor the Internet. The scheme, which even the EU has called concerning, required us within a mere 30 minutes of notification to fully censor from the Internet any sites a shadowy cabal of European media elites deemed against their interests. No judicial oversight. No due process. No appeal. No transparency. "

X (formerly Twitter) (x.com)

live concert recordings!

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

(archive.org)

Bob Weir: 'Speaking with Rolling Stone, Mr. Weir said he hoped he would be remembered for bringing cultures together.

“I’m hoping that people of varying persuasions will find something they can agree on in the music that I’ve offered,” he said, “and find each other through it.”'

Truckin' on.

nytimes.com

(www.nytimes.com)

Official Site Of The Grateful Dead | Grateful Dead

Official Site Of The Grateful Dead

Grateful Dead (www.dead.net)

"Rabbit Recipes," US dept of Ag 1930. (We are looking for things to cook to celebrate public domain day Jan 21st 2026 re: 1930!)

Not so sure about Rabbit Recipes, but nice layout. Thank you US Dept of Ag for digitizing this (I love my job).

What will you cook to celebrate public domain day?

Rabbit recipes : Yeatman, Fanny Walker, b. 1876 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Cover title

Internet Archive (archive.org)

SF power still problematic. hit a short outage at @internetarchive HQ

archive.org back online. (good news is , we are getting good at this )

SF's power situation is still problematic. go go PG&E

(pgealerts.alerts.pge.com)

archive.org and wayback machine is back up.

https://archive.org/

PG&E is getting things going as well. go

@internetarchive

archive.org is temporarily down because of the San Francisco power outage (at least we made it most of the day). folks are heading in to get what we can going.

Sorry about this, we are doing what we can, and PG&E are bringing lots of SF back up.

@internetarchive

Massive San Francisco power outage.

Saved by one block!

@internetarchive is sooo lucky.

"The very first question to be considered is the applicability of the Copyright Law to the Moon. "

Thinking ahead (in 1952) about interplanetary copyrights :). if aliens have "Two Heads, Two Authors?"

really fun, worth reading.

https://archive.org/details/sim_american-library-assoc-ala-bulletin_1953-01_47_1/page/22/mode/1up?q=interplanetary+Copyright

Do you know people that would be up for this, maybe as a contest?

we could have prizes, we could have in-person concerts with multiple groups, we could generate lots of open/free music.

We would bring 100 year old music to a new audiences. We might be a bunch of people singing.

I would really like to hear shape-note singing like they do at Bread and Puppet.

https://archive.org/details/present_joys_sacred_harp

https://archive.org/details/evangelicalmusic00hick/page/n7/mode/2up

(if anyone wants to run such a project, please come forward!)

project idea (possibly using AI): record a take of songs from old sheet music books

Starting with something like the Grange book of sheet music below and record them ... Apparently the music can get to midi via Play Score 2, and other programs can could sing the lyrics.

or better yet, if anyone wants to perform the songs and upload them to the archive, you could link it into a review of the book.

https://archive.org/details/grangemelodies00nati/page/n1/mode/2up

@internetarchive

This presentation will show many different ways that people have built services on archive.org data and API's.

The idea is to find others that want to do this, and how the @internetarchive can improve.

@GustavinoBevilacqua

Solar panels are not part of the picture, and even if they were, it would not amount to much power, unfortunately.

$0.50 per mile for electricity for a semi truck? wow, lower than I would imagine. (and it can be as low as $0.12 where rates are lower.).

"During testing, the truck averaged 1.72 kWh per mile while hauling a gross combined weight of 75,000 pounds (34 metric tons) over a 390-mile (625 km) long-haul route."

a tesla model 3 is ~0.3 kWh per mile.

https://www.trucknews.com/sustainability/dhl-supply-chain-takes-delivery-of-first-tesla-semi/1003205540/

Sharing the benefits of grid-scale batteries and solar/wind by trading in western US. The current 15 minute market in California Now going to day ahead market.

(I think made possible with recent massive grid-scale batteries allows evening out of renewables)

California now runs 5pm-8pm electricity use on batteries. Turn off more plants cuz can plan for a full day.

Thoughtful article on wholesale electricity grid coordination markets. Sounds dry, but cool:

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/california-solving-solar-power-problems-21207873.php

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