There are activities in countries around the world by various organizations all under the banner Public Domain Day.

From 2009 Coalition is an organizer of Public Domain Day in Poland, event widely covered in mainstream media.

Together with Jarosław Lipszyc he had initiated the celebration of the Public Domain Day in Poland, which has been celebrated for the first time in 2007.

"It's very hard on our organization to see the firm's name look bad in the public domain day after day," said Philip J. Purcell, Morgan Stanley's chairman and chief executive, in an interview.

In January 2011, to celebrate Public Domain Day 2011, Open Knowledge Foundation launched the The Public Domain Review, a web-based review of works which have entered the public domain.

Public Domain Day in 2010 celebrated the entry to the public domain in many countries of the works of authors such as Sigmund Freud, William Butler Yeats, Ford Madox Ford and Arthur Rackham.