Public domain music can be downloaded and used in video and other projects for free. Here are the best websites for it.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Beyond music, there's some surprising films, books, plays and characters that are entering the public domain, including several ...

The first of January ushers in a new year, a new month and new entries to the list of works in the public domain. While 2024 saw many popular intellectual properties lose copyright protection — ...

Ninety-five years after making their debut, Mickey and Minnie have entered the U.S. public domain. That is, the earliest iterations of these characters as depicted in the 1928 shorts “Steamboat Willie ...

When writing earlier this week about Adobe's sponsoring of the SQLite project, I ran into a complicated issue: is software released into the public domain also open-source software? I have an editor ...

Every new year a crop of books, music and films become part of the public domain in the U.S. Jennifer Jenkins of Duke University shares a few of the works from 1927 coming our way. On Sunday, a new ...