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Fotos De Stock: Fotografía Alta De Resolución Y Fotos Libres De Derechos. GSG: highlights=Open Content Images. The British Library's Photostream. Amanita Muscaria. Creative Commons. Many fantastic CC record labels already release and curate free music, making my job of creating an end-of-year list easy. I also browsed various CC music communities to end up with the following, somewhat eclectic, mix. If you're a west coast transplant like myself, this might be perfect for the east-to-west cross country flight home for the holidaze.

It's definitely not exhaustive, so enjoy, but be sure to check out all the other great artists and tracks on FMA. By the way, the world of free and open music is made possible by Creative Commons licenses, which are developed, supported, and stewarded by Creative Commons — an actual nonprofit organization! To ensure that the legal and technical infrastructure by which you access, share, and remix music remains robust, please consider donating to CC's Annual Campaign today. Happy holidays! Public domain resources. There are many resources on the World Wide Web that are in the public domain (see Wikipedia:Public domain), and therefore are freely usable on Wikipedia and its sister projects without legal restrictions.

Note, however, that wherever public domain resources are used on Wikipedia they should be properly attributed, just like any other source (see Wikipedia:Citing sources and Wikipedia:Plagiarism). This page is intended as a helpful guide to public-domain resources. Caveats and notes[edit] The Wikimedia Foundation is based in the United States and accordingly governed by United States copyright law, which tends to be broad. Still, Wikipedia contributors should respect the copyright law of other nations. This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the CIA World Factbook. See Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles (note that this lists templates for both public domain and non-public domain sources) and attribution templates. Dictionaries[edit] (U.S. Where can I download music for Documentaries?

12 Sources for Free Public Domain Music That You Can Download Right Now. Public domain music is music that has passed into the public domain, which makes it free and completely legal to download.

12 Sources for Free Public Domain Music That You Can Download Right Now

Here are 12 sources for free public domain music that you can use to download tons of great music onto your computer or digital audio device. Note: public domain and copyright laws are complicated. Read the fine print before downloading any music. 7. The Freesound Project The Freesound Project is a little bit different than the other public domain resources on this list. 8.

Love old jazz? 9. From the University of Houston comes the Digital History Project, an utterly fascinating database of historical, public domain music divided by type and historical period. 10. Archive.org has an extensive database of public domain music, but it can be somewhat difficult to find what you want. 11. ccMixter ccMixter offers mashups of public domain songs under a Creative Commons license. Public Domain Materials. Many works are considered to be in the public domain.

Public Domain Materials

In this case either the copyright for these works has expired or the author has decided not to copyright the work. This allows them to be used and distributed freely. As a basic rule of thumb, works copyrighted before 1923 are safely in the public domain. The following is a listing of public domain resources on the interhet. However, you should always check to make sure material on a "public domain" site is really public domain. New Resources (to be categorized): Public Domain Comedy Heaven A growing collection of free to download public domain video comedy. Public Domain Materials from the Canadian Government While the Canadian government claims Crown copyright there are images archives at the National Library of Canada that are in the public domain. Early Images of Canada 550 images Canadian Illustrated News 4000 half-tone images from 1869-1883. 70s Sci Fi Public Domain Music. Home - Public Domain Works. The Public Domain Review.