Find free content and save on permission fees Millions of creative works—books, artwork, photos, songs, movies, and more—are available copyright-free in the public domain. Whether your tastes run to Beethoven or Irving Berlin, Edvard Munch or Claude Monet, you’ll find inspiration in The Public Domain.
The only book that helps you find and identify which creative works are protected by copyright and which are not, The Public Domain covers the rules for:
- writings
- music
- art
- photography
- architecture
- maps
- choreography
- movies
- video
- software
- databases
- collections
For the first time in decades, new works began to enter the public domain in 2019, and more are entering each year. The 9th edition is completely updated to include new public domain resources and to cover the latest legal changes to copyright protection of songs, books, photos, and other creative works, as well as public domain rules outside the U.S.
