“Public Domain” Archives

Works by William Faulkner, Agatha Christie, Alfred Hitchcock, and George and Ira Gershwin — to name just a few — will become free for all to copy and adapt next year.

This year’s list includes works and titles from Disney, Charlie Chaplin, Agatha Christie, Cole Porter, and many more.

Films by Charlie Chaplin and Cecil B. DeMille, books by Edgar Rice Burroughs and Robert Frost, and even the “Charleston” are freely available.