Design by Kenneth Whitely for Works Programme Administration in 1939 – Source.

Tip #1: Find a Story aka The part where I learn about Public Domain.

According to Wikipedia [2021]

“The public domain consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply. Those rights may have expired (this occurs 70 years after the death of the author, or in the United States any book published before 1926), been forfeited, expressly waived, or may be inapplicable.”

Therefore, public domain includes the written works of Jane Austin, Lewis Carrol, Bram Stoker, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Brother’s Grimm, just to name a few.

 

I am most excited about the fairytales included under this umbrella, both for their charm & wisdom (I wholeheartedly agree with Mr. Einstein) but also their nostalgic familiarity.

I am hoping that my memories, along with having read the story to my own children, will help in my attempt to illustrate Goldilocks and The Three Bears and to possibly  re-imagine this classic fairytale, but don’t hold me to this….

 

Resources::

Grimm’s Fairy Tales, is a large collection of the Grimm Brother’s  stories, hosted by the Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science

The Public Domain Review is a beautiful collection of art & literature that can now found within the public domain