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Apollo 11 in popular culture

MTV producers Alan Goodman and Fred Seibert used this public domain footage as a conceit, associating MTV with the most famous moment in world television history.

Biographical Directory of Federal Judges

As a non-copyrighted work of the United States government, the Biographical Directory is in the public domain.

Brideless Groom

Brideless Groom is one of four Stooge shorts that fell into the public domain after the copyright lapsed in the 1960s (the other three being Malice in the Palace, Sing a Song of Six Pants, and Disorder in the Court).

Burbank Films Australia

Despite the number of releases of these films, every Burbank film has a valid US copyright and cannot be considered an orphaned work or public domain.

Disorder in the Court

Disorder in the Court is one of four Stooge shorts that fell into the public domain after the copyright lapsed in the 1960s (the other three being Malice in the Palace, Brideless Groom, and Sing a Song of Six Pants).

Ecology Flag

Ron Cobb created an ecology symbol which he published on November 7, 1969, in the Los Angeles Free Press and then placed it in the public domain.

Edward C. Wall

He had an arrangement with the Northern Pacific Railroad which allowed him a fee for every acre of land he was able to recover from public domain lands granted to the railroad and later confiscated; he credited much of his success to his friendship with Vilas, and with United States Secretary of the Interior Hoke Smith and U.S. Chief Land Commissioner Silas W. Lamoreaux.

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FanFiction.Net

Public domain lyrics (such as those to "Amazing Grace") or lyrics written by the author of the fan fiction are allowed, however.

Ganjifa

This article includes public domain text from Stewart Culin's work Chess and Playing Cards: Catalogue of games and implements for divination exhibited by the United States National Museum in connection with the department of archaeology and paleontology of the University of Pennsylvania at the Cotton States and International Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia, 1895.

KNLC

Today, the programming on KNLC consists of mostly locally-produced and syndicated religious shows (such as Ed Hindson), along with a mix of public domain classic television shows and movies.

LandView

LandView is a public domain GIS viewer designed to display United States Census Bureau, Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), and U.S.Geological Survey (USGS) data.

Luke Harangody

A Boston company, Cellular Services Worldwide, had obtained public domain photos of Harangody and Irish quarterback Jimmy Clausen and used them in an advertisement on a Notre Dame fan site on the Web.

Malbolge

Malbolge is a public domain esoteric programming language invented by Ben Olmstead in 1998, named after the eighth circle of hell in Dante's Inferno, the Malebolge.

Mr. Bug Goes to Town

Despite the fact that the film is still copyrighted (by Republic successor Melange Pictures, managed by parent company Viacom, which also owns Paramount Pictures), public domain companies have released the film on VHS and DVD.

My Favorite Husband

These radio episodes are in the public domain, and CDs containing the entire run of My Favorite Husband in the MP3 format are legally offered by several private vendors through eBay and other sites, such as at the public domain repository, the Internet Archive.

Nuclear War Survival Skills

Nuclear War Survival Skills was released into the public domain by the author, and is available in digital format for free from several sources online.

Powell Shooting Range Land Conveyance Act

This summary is based largely on the summary provided by the Congressional Research Service, a public domain source.

Project Laurens Janszoon Coster

It was started on June 14, 1995, although before that time a project collecting public domain works was already running on Usenet.

Referee in Bankruptcy

Material on this page was copied from the website of the Federal Judicial Center, an agency of the United States whose works are in the public domain.

Spam Lit

Some of the snippets are original content, others are passages from public domain works (such as Edgar Allan Poe and The Bible), and others are conglomerations of several creative public domain works, which are often copied from the internet.

The Great Rupert

In 2003, 20th Century Fox and Legend Films revived the (now) public domain film with a colorized special edition of the film, under the title A Christmas Wish.

The Story of Doctor Dolittle

The book entered the public domain in the United States in 1996, and in many Berne Convention countries in 1998.

The17

These instructions (called "scores," but bearing little relation to musical scores) are open to change over time, and exist in the public domain.

Timeline of Electronic Frontier Foundation actions

EFF successfully defends JibJab, the creators of a parody flash animation piece using Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land", and uncovered evidence that the classic folk song is in fact already part of the public domain.

Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die!

The YouTube release of "Casual Affair" samples the quote "Looks innocent enough, doesn't it? But sometimes there are dangers involved that never meet the eye. No matter where you meet a stranger, be careful if they are too friendly" taken from the 1961 public domain anti-gay film Boys Beware.

Walls of Sand

The Sync had already presented several short films and two classic public domain silent features, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919) and Nosferatu (1922), but no contemporary feature film had been made available for free real-time webcast viewing prior to Walls of Sand.

Wood-Pawcatuck Watershed Protection Act

This summary is based largely on the summaries provided by the Congressional Research Service and Congressional Budget Office, both public domain sources.


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Al al-Din

This article incorporates material from Herbert Giles's A Chinese Biographical Dictionary (London: Arthur Probsthain, 1898), which is now in the public domain.

Bibleserver.com

These Bible translations are available on public domain: Vulgate, the Hebrew Old Testament, Septuagint, IBS-fordítás (Új Károli), Bible Kralická and the Chinese Union Version.

Blind Hearts

This film was made prior to Bosworth's next film The Sea Lion, a film now in Public Domain and out on DVD.

Born Twice

All Songs Written by Randy Stonehill, except "Hand in the Hand" by Gene MacLellan, "I Need You" by Jimmy Owens, and "He's Got the Whole World" and "He is a Friend of Mine" are Public Domain-Words & Arr.

Charles Sheldon

In the 1990s WWJD bracelets became a popular item among young people and publishers increased sales of the public domain book In His Steps and tied it in with marketing of "What would Jesus do?" items.

Coconut production in the Philippines

:This article incorporates public domain text from the Library of Congress

Common Purpose UK

But Philip Davies, Conservative MP for Shipley, criticised the relationship between Government and Common Purpose as well as the fact it did not put the content of its training in the public domain.

Cup-bearer

:This article is adapted from an article in the 1915 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, which is now in the public domain

Dan Galorath

The underlying model was based in part on the work of Dr. Randall Jenson's public domain modified Putnam model.

Dark Passage

United Artists claimed that the work had fallen into the public domain under the terms of the Copyright Act of 1909 because it had been first published as a serial in The Saturday Evening Post, and that Goodis never obtained a separate copyright on the work.

Doc Scurlock

After they closed the cheese factory in the spring of 1876, Scurlock and his best friend, Bowdre, returned to Lincoln County, New Mexico, where they bought a ranch on public domain land on the Rio Ruidoso from L. G. Murphy on credit, which made them victims of the L. G. Murphy & Co.

Fort Peck Indian Agency

There are about 939,165 acres of tribal and allotted surface trust acreage that includes Turtle Mountain Public Domain lands.

Garth Fisher

Garth Fisher, M.D. (born September 1, 1958), is an American plastic surgeon best known as the first doctor selected for the ABC television show Extreme Makeover, so bringing plastic surgery into the public domain through the media.

George R. Poulton

In 1956 the song (now in the public domain) was given new lyrics and released as the Elvis Presley song "Love Me Tender".

Grady Ward

Prior to his opposition to the Church of Scientology, Grady Ward compiled the Moby Project, an extensive compilation of English language lexical resources and in 1996 released it to the public domain.

HadCRUT

In a decision announced on 27 July 2011 the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) required release of raw data even though permissions had not been obtained or in one instance had been refused, and on 27 July 2011 CRU announced release of the raw instrumental data not already in the public domain, with the exception of Poland which was outside the area covered by the FOIA request.

ISO Development Environment

The ISODE software was initially a public domain / open source implementation, lead by Marshall Rose.

John Hody

This article incorporates text from Foss's Judges of England, a publication now in the public domain.

Licensee estoppel

The Supreme Court, in Lear, Inc. v. Adkins (1969), held the doctrine inconsistent with a federal policy that the invalidity of specious patents should be unmasked in order to permit full and free competition in technology ideas that belong in the public domain.

Llangaffo

:This article incorporates public domain text from the "Topographical Dictionary of Wales" by Samuel Lewis (1833), the "National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland" (1868), and "Lapidarium walliae: the early inscribed and sculptured stones of Wales" by John Obadiah Westwood (1879).

Maltbie Davenport Babcock

::This article incorporates text from the 1910 edition of The National Cyclopædia of American Biography, Supplement I, a work which has passed into the public domain.

Memory foam

When NASA released memory foam to the public domain in the early 1980s, Fagerdala World Foams was one of the few companies willing to work with the foam, as the manufacturing process remained difficult and unreliable.

Natural Earth

All versions of Natural Earth raster and vector map data on the Natural Earth website are in the public domain.

Oregon land fraud scandal

Then when a lumber company bookkeeper exposed the scheme to an The Oregonian reporter, Puter turned on his former boss, testifying against him, and writing a scathing expose, Looters of the Public Domain, about the scheme.

Phaon

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1848 edition of Lemprière's Classical Dictionary.

Robert Nicholl Carne

This article incorporates public domain text from John Bernard Burke's A visitation of the seats and arms of the noblemen and gentlemen of Great Britain (1853).

Stoogemania

Only four shorts are shown throughout the film, all of which are in the public domain: Sing a Song of Six Pants, Malice in the Palace, Brideless Groom, and Disorder in the Court.

The Adventures of Sir Lancelot

In the US, the series was released as a DVD boxed set on 19 August 2008 by The Timeless Media Group with 14 episodes presented in colour, taken from US public domain prints.

The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

The book incorporates illustrations from a public domain edition of Gray's Anatomy, originally drawn by Henry Vandyke Carter.

Theodore B. Sachs

:This article incorporates text from Sigard Adolphus Knopf's "A history of the National tuberculosis association: the anti-tuberculosis movement in the United States" (1922), now in the public domain.

Town Fields

Town Fields is a large area of public land in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England that has belonged in the public domain for many hundreds of years.

WDNI-CD

The station aired a variety of programming including public-domain movies, Cincinnati Reds baseball games and was also the local affiliate to carry ECW Hardcore TV on Sunday evenings.

Xz

It is licensed under the terms of the GNU LGPL and GNU GPL, with the bulk of the software (e.g., liblzma) in the public domain.

Zag de Sujurmenza

The content of this article incorporates material of Volume 70 of the Enciclopedia universal ilustrada europeo-americana (Espasa) with copyright before 1932, which is in the public domain.

Zophar's Domain

As of July 2012, Zophar's Domain no longer provides commercial ROMs and ISOs; they only provide public domain ROMs now.