You hear a faint typing noise.

My fellow Americans! It’s less than 24 hours until Public Domain Day!!!

Gird your loins, grab your keyboards, and fire up your scanners, because the copyright term of 1923 is finally lapsing! Tomorrow, thousands of works will become part of the public domain! For the first time in twenty-one years, an entire year’s worth of media will become free to use, share, and remix to our heart’s content!

So tonight, watch the ball drop, grab your drink, and settle in to watch the Wikimedia uploads roll in!