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.

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/ www.imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page - sheet music

Books [stanza]

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/