Are you a screenwriter looking for material to adapt; a theater company looking for plays to perform for free; a filmmaker looking for copyright-free footage; a publisher looking for royalty-free titles; or a musician looking for inexpensive sheet music that you freely reproduce? Then this book is for you. There’s a vast public domain treasure trove free for the taking—books, movies videos, artwork, photos, and software— but there’s one catch. You have to know how to recognize it and find it. That’s where this book comes in. Part manual, and part map, this book explains the rules that surround the public domain. And using the materials in this book you’ll be able to identify—with a little effort— creative works that you can use without permission. If you can find just one public domain work using this book, then it will have paid for itself.