Public Domain

Works that are not under copyright.

Openness: Libre

Works and Sources

Works

• 4C System ● A supers retroclone.
• CopySouth Dossier ● 'Issues in the economics, politics, and ideology of copyright in the global South'
• Enchanted Realms ● Role-playing with cards.
• Floor Games ● A storytelling game HG Wells played with his children.
• Free Software Song ● A song written by free software guru Richard Stallman.
• 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.
• 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.
• Octobriana ● A public doman, communist-era superhero.
• Open Data, Open Society ● A research project about openness of public data in EU local administrations
• Open Goldberg Variations ● A performance of Bach's Goldberg Variations.
• Passage ● A sidescroller about a man and his wife.
• Quick-Play ● A diceless RPG for quick startup and rapid play.
• 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]"
• The Far Towers ● Play travelling enforcers and heroes putting wrongs to right.
• The Penthouse ● A Fiasco playset.
• Weapons & Gear ● A Ronin Arts gear book for 4C System.
• Weasels! ● A simple system of intelligent weasels living in The Forest that must deal with a threat. Easy for kids.

Sources

• 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.
• Burningwell ● Public domain images (mostly photographs)
• 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.
• Harvard Library Open Metadata ● Metadata from the Harvard Library.
• Jason Rohrer ● A game designer who writes simple but not simplistic games.
• 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
• NounProject ● Simple vector images.
• 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.
• Prelinger Archive ● A collection of ephemeral film.
• Project Gutenberg ● A website that preserves out-of-copyright books.
• Public Domain Review ● Reviews and catalogues of works in the public domain.
• Public Domain Super Heroes ● A wiki of superheroes and villains that have lapsed into the public domain.
• Public Domain Torrents ● Torrents for public domain movies.
• QuestionCopyright.org ● An advocacy group for copyright reform.
• Safecast ● A project to empower people with data by distributing the load of data collection.
• Telecanter ● A tabletop RPG website.
• The Best Copyright-Free Photo Libraries ● A collection of US Government photo libraries.
• The Free Motion Quilting Project ● A collection of designs for quilt patches.
• The Freesound Project ● A database of sounds (not songs).

Licences

• Creative Commons Copyright-Only Dedication/Public Domain Certification ● A multipurpose and now retired licence.
• Creative Commons Zero ● A Creative Commons licence which allows copying under any circumstances.

• The Public Domain Manifesto ● A statement on the value of the public domain.