Since 2018, every year on January 1st I have celebrated Public Domain Day by publishing a post about it and releasing one of my own works to the public domain. To learn more about the public domain, I recommend you read my first PDD post, “Now Don’t Fucking Touch It,” which explains how copyright law works and how egregiously restrictive it has become in the past century.
Public Domain Day Posts
2018
Now, Don’t Fucking Touch It
2019
A Reader’s Guide to Paul Selver’s Translation of Karel Čapek’s “And So Ad Infinitum”
2021
A Plea for Authors to Consider the Commons
2022
A Public Domain Review Review
2023
Public Domain Day 2023: Now With 400% More Artists!
My Works in the Public Domain
2018: Chimaera Cries ON STREAM!!!!! (short play)
Smashwords — PDF — Epub — Mobi — Docx
2019: Tallahassee Ca. 2045 (full-length play)
Smashwords — PDF — Epub — Mobi — Docx
2020: “ChannelCon ’30” (novelette)
Smashwords — PDF — Epub — Mobi — Docx
2021: The War of Paraguay (translation of La guerra del Paraguay, excerpt of Um Estadista do Imperio by Joaquim Nabuco)
Smashwords — PDF — Epub — Mobi — Docx
2022: Classic Cage (one act play)
Smashwords — PDF — Epub — Mobi — Docx
2023: “Masters of the Wine Printers Guild” (novelette)
PDF — Print Imposed PDF — Docx — Epub — Mobi — Read Online
Francis Bass 