How can something in the public domain not be publicly available? A critical investigation of public domain—a legal term that has nothing to do with free access or public availability—that uses powerhouse commercial archive Getty Images as its example. If the world's visual history remains locked behind a paywall, who will ever see it?
Richard Misek
Director, Writer

Miles Davis
Self (Archive Footage)

Edgar D. Mitchell
Self (Archive Footage)

Martin Luther King Jr.
Self (Archive Footage)
Wang Weilin
Self (Archive Footage)
Sherman's March67%
John Candy: I Like Me78%
Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story62%
180° South72%
Directed by John Ford70%
The Class of ‘9271%
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home67%
Report61%
35 Up76%
Night Will Fall76%
A Plastic Ocean75%
Above Majestic73%
Lionel Messi: Destiny78%
Harmontown66%
49 Up73%
Looking for Richard68%
Public Speaking70%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
Tricked: The Documentary61%
Black Sheep72%