® (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!

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/21/nx-s1-5677702/public-domain-2026-remix-contest-internet-archive-1930

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. "

https://x.com/eastdakota/status/2009654937303896492

live concert recordings!

https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead

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.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/obituaries/bob-weir-dead-grateful-dead.html

https://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

https://pgealerts.alerts.pge.com/outage-tools/outage-map/

archive.org and wayback machine is back up.

https://archive.org/

PG&E is getting things going as well. go

@internetarchive