Public Domain Guide

LibGuides: Copyright Services: Copyright Term and the Public Domain

Determining what is or isn't in the public domain can be a complicated and lengthy process. However, the chart below is provided to help guide ...

Guide to Finding Interesting Public Domain Works Online

This guide is intended to assist people who are interested in exploring interesting works which have entered the public domain.

Public Domain Guide | Digital Citizenship+ Resource Platform

The public domain is vast, and includes works of literature, music, film, art and other creative content.

What is Public Domain? - Copyright and Fair Use

The Public Domain in an umbrella term that encompasses works that, for a number of reasons, are not protected by copyright law.

The public domain | UC Copyright - University of California

No permission is needed to copy or use public domain works. A work is generally considered to be within the public domain if it is ineligible for copyright ...

Public Domain - Copyright and Intellectual Property Toolkit

If the publication date is before January 1, 1926, then the work is in the Public Domain. For works published after 1977, copyright will not ...

Welcome to the Public Domain - Copyright Overview by Rich Stim

The term “public domain” refers to creative materials that are not protected by intellectual property laws such as copyright, trademark, or patent laws.

Public Domain - Copyright and Fair Use

You can safely assume that anything published before 1923 is in the public domain. This include books, famous works of art, photographs, and ...

Public Domain and Creative Commons: A Guide to Works You Can ...

Here is an in-depth guide to using public domain and Creative Commons materials for your theses, dissertations, publications, and other scholarly projects.

Public Domain Guidelines - Creative Commons Wiki

These guidelines are intended for use with content in the public domain. By public domain work, we mean a work that has no known, current copyright ...

All materials published before 1928 are in the public domain as of 2023. Each January 1, the literature, movies, music scores, and other works released 95 ...

"Public domain" refers to creative materials that are not protected by intellectual property laws such as copyright, trademark, or patent laws.

Finding and Using Items in Public Domain - Research Guides

These sites are good starting points for finding images, books and other items that are in the public domain.

Public Domain 101 - LibGuides at University of Texas at Austin

NOTE: There are lots of exceptions to these general guidelines, so make sure you do your research on each item you are interested in. The ...

About the Public Domain. A work in the public domain is not protected by copyright. You are free to copy the entire work. In the United States, ...

Resources for Public Domain Materials

This page is intended as a helpful guide to public-domain resources, but as with all publicly-editable guides, make sure to verify that materials are in the ...

Public Domain - Copyright - Library Research Guides at Indiana ...

The laws passed by Congress and the decisions of Federal courts are in the public domain by the terms of the Copyright Act of 1976, which makes ...

2.3 The Public Domain - Creative Commons Certificate

Review the CC Public Domain guidelines. If the work was digitized by a GLAM institution, it is also good practice to identify the provenance of the artwork by ...

Finding Public Domain & Creative Commons Media

This guide will help you find and correctly attribute public domain and Creative Commons media for your project or presentation. Last updated ...

Use this guide as a starting point for copyright education. ... Below are introductory guidelines and select resources for public domain content.