Today for the #TarGramChallenge, we are talking about #TrueBlueTraditions. Our favorite copyright tradition is the public domain. The public domain contains items that may or may not have had copyright protection, but now those works no longer have copyright protection. A telephone book that lists names in alphabetical order is not afforded copyright protection. In the United States, pre-1923 published items are no longer afforded copyright protections. Photographs taken by animals are not afforded copyright protection. With works that are no longer afforded copyright protection, an individual has free range to copy the work in its entirety (like Pride and Prejudices and Zombies – available here at UNC!—which used 85% of the original text). Works published after 1922 may be difficult to determine whether the work still have copyright protection, although Peter Hirtle has a great chart to help. Here in the Scholarly Communications Office, we are more than happy to help you determine whether you can rewrite Animal Farm as Android Farm or can answer more practical questions about posting images or works on your personal website or on Sakai, because there can never be enough places to read Johnathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal.