Public Domain
Works that are not under copyright.
Public Domain Usage Guide from Europeana
Openness: Libre
Works
- 2012 Libre Gift Guide ● 'A list of libre things that one might enjoy receiving from one's acquaintances at upcoming gift-giving occasions.'
- 4C System ● A supers retroclone.
- Archaeology, Anthropology, and Interstellar Communication ● "Addressing a field that has been dominated by astronomers, physicists, engineers, and computer scientists, the contributors to this collection raise questions that may have been overlooked by physical scientists about the ease of establishing meaningful communication with an extraterrestrial intelligence."
- Aural Tradition ● An album created as part of a copyright course.
- Awen ● A fantasy RPG.
- Blood, Guts & Glory ● 'Blood, Guts & Glory is a pen-and-paper role-playing game of fantasy adventure. As the name would suggest, the game is in a somewhat "gritty" mould with the emphasis on visceral combat where you get specific injuries such as broken bones, torn muscles, burns and the like.'
- Bounty Hunter Blues ● A playset for the Fiasco role-playing game
- Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts ● 35,000 scans of illuminated manuscripts.
- CIA World Factbook ● Details about all the countries of the world.
- Codename: Spandex ● 'Codename: Spanded is a retro-clone game that emulates the game mechanics of another out-of-print game [Golden Heroes] without using any of the copyrighted artistic presentation.'
- Comic Neue ● An elegant take on Comic Sans.
- CopySouth Dossier ● 'Issues in the economics, politics, and ideology of copyright in the global South'
- CrisisCommons Wiki ● 'A volunteer and project collaborative space for organizing projects and efforts around disaster relief.'
- Dark Dungeons ● A tabletop RPG based on the Rules Cyclopedia.
- Dungeon Raiders ● Simplification of Original D&D and early D&D
- Enchanted Realms ● Role-playing with cards.
- Eyewriter ● 'This international team is working together to create a low-cost, open source eye-tracking system that will allow ALS patients to draw using just their eyes.'
- Floor Games ● A storytelling game HG Wells played with his children.
- Free Culture Guide ● An Arabic guide to free culture.
- Free Software Song ● A song written by free software guru Richard Stallman.
- Future of Copyright ● A competition for fiction and non-fiction entries on copyright.
- Glitch the Game ● 2D MMORPG art assets now public domain.
- Hexpack ● An expansion to the Piecepack.
- Hoard ● Play a growing dragon.
- Libre Culture ● An anthology arguing for freeing up works from copyright.
- Little Wars ● A storytelling game HG Wells played with his children.
- Love Me Do ● A Beatles classic.
- Maki ● "A clean point of interest icon set made especially for cartography."
- Microcosm ● A game from Amagi Games.
- Midian ● An intricate and lengthy RPG of dark fantasy.
- Monster RPG 2 ● 'Monster RPG 2 is a fantasy quest that spans continents and worlds and lets you take a simple villager and develop her into a hero with the power to save her world.'
- Musopen Collection ● Music files from Musopen.
- News Of The Empire ● A one-page Victorian steampunk setting, written in newspaper format
- Nothing To Hide ● An "anti-stealth" computer game - you have to be complicit in your own surveillance!
- Octobriana ● A public doman, communist-era superhero.
- Open Data, Open Society ● A research project about openness of public data in EU local administrations
- Open English Bible ● A project to create a modern public domain translation of the Bible.
- Open Goldberg Variations ● A performance of Bach's Goldberg Variations.
- Pantheon ● 'Pantheon is a storytelling game about a hero’s journey and the trials devised by the gods.'
- Passage ● A sidescroller about a man and his wife.
- Piecepack ● A set of pieces you can use to play many games.
- Public Domain Textures ● What it says.
- Quick-Play ● A diceless RPG for quick startup and rapid play.
- Quick-Play ● '[A] very simple universal system ... Meant for short games with quick startup, it is a diceless game that contains within it full character creation, conflict resolution, supernatural/superhuman abilities, and even a few optional rules – all contained in three pages.'
- Roadkill ● A short story by Leonard Kirke.
- Sharing is Caring ● A single - remixed multiple times - released by Dan Bull. #9 in the UK Independent chart.
- Spears of the Dawn Art Pack ● 'These African-inspired artworks were created for the tabletop RPG Spears of the Dawn.'
- Super Hero Fun ● A tabletop RPG.
- The Beggar's Opera ● An 18th Century ballad opera.
- The Case for Copyright Reform ● "The book is a compilation of the strongest articles on reform of the copyright monopoly from Christian Engström (MEP) and [Rick Falkvinge]"
Sources
- Aaron Pogue ● A fantasy author.
- Aelius Blythe ● A fiction author.
- Alfonse Maria Mucha: The Complete Works ● A collection of artworks of the Art Nouveau artist.
- Amagi Games ● A game company which publishes libre tabletop games and supplements.
- Art Passions ● Collections of public domain artworks by dead artists.
- Bill Browne ● RPG creator.
- Blend Swap ● 'Proudly the greatest repository of open source blends on the Tubes.'
- British Library ● The British Library.
- Burningwell ● Public domain images (mostly photographs)
- Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom ● Anti-IP libertarian blog from Stephen Kinsella.
- Comic Book Plus ● Gratis public domain comics.
- Commonly ● A site to ransom CC0 game assets.
- Communia ● 'The Association’s mission is to educate about, advocate for, offer expertise and research about the public domain in the digital age within society and with policy-makers.'
- CopySouth Research Group ● A group of researchers seeking to reveal the negative impact of copyright on the Global South.
- Dan Bull ● A musician.
- Dane Carney ● A photographer, mainly of local bands.
- David K Levine ● An author.
- Digital Comic Museum ● Gratis public domain comics.
- Free Curricula Center ● The Free Curricula Center (FCC) helps students worldwide reach their educational potential by producing and distributing university-level curricula that can be copied freely and modified cooperatively.
- FreePD.com ● A collection of 444 public domain songs
- Freetems ● Collection of CC0 / public domain photos, ebooks, music etc.
- Fury Comics ● Public domain comics for gratis viewing but difficult to download.
- Give Life Back to Music ● First public domain record label.
- Harvard Library Open Metadata ● Metadata from the Harvard Library.
- HG Wells ● A famous author.
- Internet Archive Book Images ● Over 2 million images from books digitised on the Internet Archive.
- James Hutchings ● 'James Hutchings lives in Melbourne, Australia. His work has appeared in Daily Science Fiction, Enchanted Conversation and fiction365 among other markets.'
- Jason Rohrer ● A game designer who writes simple but not simplistic games.
- Karen's Whimsy ● Public domain images scanned from books.
- Leonard Kirke ● An author.
- LibriVox ● 'Extensive collection of free audio books read by volunteers; the goal is to record every book in the public domain.'
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art ● '[T]he Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is the largest art museum in the western United States'
- Mike Shaw ● A mashup musician.
- MuseScore ● Hosts the sources of the Open Goldberg Variations edition
- Musopen ● "There ought to be but one large art warehouse in the world, to which the artist could carry his art-works and from which he could carry away whatever he needed..." - Beethoven
- NASA ● You've probably heard of it.
- NASA Images ● A collection of photographs from NASA.
- Nooskewl Games ● 'Nooskewl is an independent game studio founded in 2009.'
- NounProject ● Simple vector images.
- Old Book Art ● Scanned public domain illustrations.
- Old Book Illustrations ● Illustrations scanned from old books.
- Open Library ● A project to create one page for every book ever published.
- Open Science Federation ● 'The Open Science Federation is a nonprofit alliance working to improve the conduct and communication of science.'
- PhiloPic ● 'PhyloPic stores free silhouette images of animals, plants, and other life forms. All images are available for reuse under a Public Domain or Creative Commons license.'
- Picdrome ● A collection of photos.
- Pixabay ● 'Find and share outstanding images'
- Prelinger Archive ● A collection of ephemeral film.
- Pristine Classical ● A company that remasters public domain music.
- Project Gutenberg ● A website that preserves out-of-copyright books.
- Public Domain Review ● Reviews and catalogues of works in the public domain.
- The Public Domain Game Jam ● A competition to create a game inspired by the public domain.
- The Public Domain Manifesto ● A statement on the value of the public domain.
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