Copyright

The "Public Domain" refers to a figurative collective space for information as well as a label for materials that are free to use.

Public domain materials are works not protected by copyright. This can mean that their protection has expired, they have been made free for use by their creators, or they are works created by the federal government.

Here are some tools to determine if a work is "in the public domain":

It should be noted that if you see the CC0 symbol on a work, it is in the public domain. See the description of the license here:

We still have a responsibility to use public domain works ethically. Here are some guidelines:

Here are some sites that contain public domain text and images. Carefully examine the description of the item before download or reuse, since not all items are public domain.

Certain items contain copyright restrictions or include a Creative Commons license.

It should be noted that U.S. federal government documents are in the public domain, but works created by private citizens on these websites are not.

Texts:

Images:

Government resources: