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If a film appears on the list below, there is a high probability it has lost some or all of its United States copyright protection or, in the case of U.S. government films, was never protected by copyright. There is no single method for determining if a film, or parts of it, is in the public domain.
- List of Public Domain Works With Multimedia Adaptations
Following is a list of public domain works with multimedia...
- The Red House
The Red House is a 1947 American thriller film noir directed...
- The Screaming Skull
The Screaming Skull is a 1958 independently made American...
- Public domain in the United States
This 2019 video from the United States Copyright Office...
- List of Public Domain Works With Multimedia Adaptations
The public exhibition of obscene films may still incur legal difficulties after the fact, under the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court Miller v. California decision. Seven states formed film censorship boards that exercised prior restraint on film exhibition, which both pre-dated and outlasted the Hays Code:
On the set of a pornographic film. Pornography has existed since the origins of the United States, and has become more readily accessible in the 21st century.Advanced by technological development, it has gone from a hard-to-find "back alley" item, beginning in 1969 with Blue Movie by Andy Warhol, the Golden Age of Porn (1969–1984) and home video, to being more available in the country and ...
United States copyright law includes numerous defenses, exceptions, and limitations. Some of the most important include: Copyright applies only to certain copyrightable subject matter , codified within 17 U.S.C. § 102 .
Public law is the part of law that governs relations and affairs between legal persons and a government, [1] between different institutions within a state, between different branches of governments, [2] as well as relationships between persons that are of direct concern to society.
Learn more about this selection of films from the National Film Registry. Browse more content that is free to use and reuse. The National Film Registry selects 25 films each year to showcase the range and diversity of American film heritage. These public domain selections are part of an online collection.
