Public Domain

What is the Public Domain?

In the 'Public Domain' is to do with intellectual property and copyright laws.

If something is in the public domain it means that it’s not ‘owned’ by anyone and

therefore has no legal restriction to use. Public Domain is a good place to start looking for media to use.

A selection of websites for Public Domain media

Images (photos, art, and clipart)

www.freefoto.com

www.photos8.com

www.burningwell.org

www.public-domain-photos.com/

www.wpclipart.com/

www.morguefile.com/

www.publicdomainpictures.net/

www.acliparthistory.com/

www.public-domain-photos.com/free-cliparts/

www.openclipart.org/

www.reusableart.com/

Music

www.musopen.com

www.pdmusic.org

www.publicdomain4u.com

http://imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page

Books

www.gutenberg.org

Much public domain material exists - search ‘public domain’ in Google

(Check the media licencing on sites such as Wikipedia to see if it is public domain)

Free Music - but check licencing

http://www.last.fm/

http://www.archive.org/details/opensource_audio

http://stereogum.com/

http://www.dogmazic.net/index.php?op=edito&choice_user_language=English

http://www.jamendo.com/en/