# The Public Domain Review

An online journal that digs up strange and beautiful out-of-copyright art, books, films and audio, with curated collection posts and long essays that link to the source archives.

- Category: Museums and open art · by The Public Domain Review (UK Community Interest Company)
- Website: https://publicdomainreview.org/
- Live data: no
- Checked on the official pages: 2026-10-23

## API

- No official API. Do not scrape the site; use it by hand or through its downloads.

## Data and license

- License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (site text); historical images: no rights asserted, see source institution (https://publicdomainreview.org/reusing-material/); covers CC BY-SA covers unquoted text of collection posts and most essays; images keep the rights label of the digitising institution
- Commercial use with conditions
- Credit depends on the item
- Embedding unclear
- Quote (license_text): "All unquoted text in our Collections posts, Curator's Choice posts, and Conjectures posts" (https://publicdomainreview.org/reusing-material/)
- Quote (license_essays): "most of the pieces in our Essays series are also published under a CC BY-SA licence" (https://publicdomainreview.org/reusing-material/)
- Quote (commercial): "free to reuse for any purpose, even commercially" (https://publicdomainreview.org/reusing-material/)
- Quote (commercial_conditions): "do not put the piece, in original or translated form, behind a paywall" (https://publicdomainreview.org/reusing-material/)
- Quote (attribution): "attribute The Public Domain Review as the original source" (https://publicdomainreview.org/reusing-material/)
- Quote (attribution_images): "you are under no obligation to mention us, but we would really appreciate a mention and link back if practicable" (https://publicdomainreview.org/reusing-material/)
- Quote (images): "we do not assert rights relating to any of the historical images featured on the site" (https://publicdomainreview.org/reusing-material/)
- Quote (rights_labels): "we label the digital copies we feature with the rights status claimed by the digitising institution" (https://publicdomainreview.org/rights-labelling-on-our-site/)

## Rules for an agent

- No API: follow each post's link to the source institution and check that item's rights label before reusing an image.
- Reused text: credit the author and 'originally published on The Public Domain Review', keep CC BY-SA, no paywall
- Check the end of each essay: some essays use more restrictive terms
- For images, check the digitising institution's rights statement; PDR labels are guidance, not legal advice

Human page: https://agentgid.com/resources/public-domain-review/
Source: AgentGid (agentgid.com). Facts are quoted from the site's own pages; check the license page before you ship.