**Stuff that nobody has copyright on that you can do anything with** Public Domain stuff is cool. By law, most things go into the public domain after a long enough time period has elapsed, but also it's possible for things to be put into the open domain as they are created (see: [[SQLite]], most other Open-Source software) > In most countries the [term of protection](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries%27_copyright_lengths "List of countries' copyright lengths") of copyright expires on the first day of January, 70 years after the death of the latest living author. > - Wikipedia # Stuff in the Open - Music - Beethoven's compositions - Note _performance recordings_ of these public domain musical pieces may be copyrighted - [some](https://freepd.com/scoring.php) online... less than the image ones - Imagery - Da Vinci's art - [so](https://unsplash.com/images/stock/public-domain) [many](https://www.pexels.com/public-domain-images/) [websites](https://www.loc.gov/free-to-use/) [offer](https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/en/) [these](https://pixnio.com) - Stories - Shakespeare's - Jane Austen's work - Edgar Allen Poe **** ## Source - [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain) ## Related - [[SQLite]]