Every year, many classical creative works enter th...  ...ery year, many classical creative works enter the public domain on January 1st under US copyright law. Most are f...  ...te Lotus.Some classic films are also entering the public domain , including Alan Crosland’s The Jazz Singer...

New Year's Day is sometimes called Public Domain Day. We librarians make special note of it becaus...  ...r, many famous works of literature are now in the public domain , including A.A. Milne's classic work of children'...  ...iterature Winnie-the-Pooh.What else is now in the public dom...

Photographer Carol Highsmith began donating her wo...  ...ograph that she not only took, but donated to the public .Two days later, she got an e-mail from LCS, sayin...  ...ompanies' methods for selling licenses to publish public domain images. In fact, it may be an important, preceden...

Adolf Hitler’s book Mein Kampf entered the public domain at the beginning of 2016, because Hitler’s...  ...ong time. Who was profiting from the book’s publication all those years? And who will profit now that any...

The song we know as “Happy Birthday to You&...  ...lect royalties every time it’s performed in public . But that changed today, as a federal judge decla...  ...as a federal judge declared the song to be in the public domain .The class action lawsuit that produced Tuesday&rs...  ...he suit claimed th...

The Internet Archive has made a huge collection of old stock footage available for download. The films go back over a hundred years! Internet Archive's 35mm stock footage collection consists of material especially shot...

Grandma's Graphics has a neat collection of vintag...  ...Graphics has a neat collection of vintage art and public domain images perfect for that children's book you've al...