Therefore, we want to invite all organizations working for openness and commons to celebrate with us Public Domain Week (January, 21-25). Some of our partners will organize events this week (including Creative Commons in the US, Centrum Cyfrowe in Poland), but we would love also to see other things happening - your imagination is the limit. Maybe you want to organise something? An event, a hackathon, a concert, a contest? Maybe you want to help with internet outreach on the public domain? Publish something on your blogs (Why public domain is important to you? How your readers can contribute from the public domain?), give some love to the topic on social media?

-    We’ll celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Public Domain Manifesto (http://www.publicdomainmanifesto.org/manifesto.html) endorsed by many international organizations;
-    In the US, ever since the 1998 Copyright Term Extension Act, no published works have entered the public domain (well, none due to copyright expiration). But for the first time in 20 years this January, tens of thousands of books, films, visual art, sheet music, and plays published in 1923 will be free of intellectual property restrictions (https://creativecommons.org/2018/12/05/join-us-for-a-grand-re-opening-of-the-public-domain/)
-    There is a chance that the public domain will be granted legal protection in the new copyright directive, which is debated right now in the EU (https://www.communia-association.org/2018/12/21/copyright-reform-still-stalled-good-news-public-domain/).