Blog Contests Featured Public Domain
by Andrew Schwartz- updated on November 7, 2022
January 1st, 2019 – a day dubbed “Public Domain Day” by originators Wallace McLean, a public domain activist, and Harvard Law professor Lawrence Lessig – saw the release of over 50,000 titles from 1923 that are now available in the public domain. In fact, due to the Sony Bono Copyright Act, any work made prior to 1924 is now irrevocably in the public domain. These works include films from Charlie Chaplin and Cecille B. DeMille, books from Aldous Huxley and Robert Frost and music from legends such as Louis Armstrong. Following Public Domain Day, other well-known institutions including The Cleveland Museum of Art, The New York Public Library, and The Folger Shakespeare Library followed suit and have also released thousands upon thousands of works into the public domain. Meaning, for screenwriters, there’s now an endless supply of material to inspire a great screenplay, or as the Atlantic notes, even the next Great American Novel. And it doesn’t end here: Every first of the year hereafter will see another release of existing works published 95 years prior into the Public Domain. The list featured at the end of this post doesn’t end at films and literature: As we noted in aprevious article, tens of thousands of works have also been released from some of the most well-known institutions in the world. Highlighted in the hugely-resourceful website, ‘The Public Domain Review’, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The New York Public Library, The Getty, The Folger Shakespeare Library, also offer thousands of works that have recently been absolved of any copyright protections. Writing a screenplay based off an existing IP – whether it’s a NY-Times Best Seller, a graphic novel, or even an ancient poem – mitigates the potential risks an investor has to take when financing a film. It offers studios and producers the chance to test out an emerging screenwriter’s storytelling abilities while knowing there’s a built-in audience who will resonate with the story. 2019 has already seen a massive injection of existing IPs into the public domain – meaning they can be built upon or recreated for educational and commercial purposes – so, for writers yearning for the inspiration for their next great undertaking, now is the time to take note. Also note that adapting an existing IP isn’t a practice exclusive to new writers: Some of Hollywood’s most critically acclaimed and well-respected filmmakers constantly look to existing IPs for inspiration. The Coen Brothers’ O Brother, Where Art Thou? is based on Homer’s Illiad; Guillermo del Toro frequently references works from artists such as Francisco de Goya while Sofia Coppola pays homage to the paintings of John Kacere throughout Lost in Translation. The possibilities are endless, and the stories are clearly worth telling. Happy researching! As of January 1st, 2019, here’s what’s now available from film and literature: Abysmal Brute, Hobart Henley The Acquittal, Clarence Brown Adam and Eva, Robert G. Vignola Adam's Rib, Cecil B. DeMille The Age of Desire, Frank Borzage Alias the Night Wind, Joseph Franz Alice Adams, Rowland V. Lee All the Brothers Were Valiant, Irvin Willat Anna Christie, John Griffith Wray April Showers, Tom Forman The Acquittal, Clarence Brown Around the World in Eighteen Days, B. Reeves Eason,Robert F. Hill Ashes of Vengeance, Frank Lloyd Backbone, Edward Sloman The Bad Man, Edwin Carewe Bag and Baggage, Finis Fox The Barefoot Boy, David Kirkland Bavu, Stuart Paton Bell Boy 13, William A. Seiter Big Brother, Allan Dwan Big Dan, William A. Wellman The Bishop of the Ozarks, Finis Fox The Bolted Door, William Worthington Boston Blackie, Scott R. Dunlap Boy of Mine, William Beaudine Black Oxen, Frank Lloyd Blinky, Edward Sedgwick Blow Your Own Horn, James W. Horne Bluebeard's 8th Wife, Sam Wood Brass, Sidney Franklin The Brass Bottle, Maurice Tourneur Brass Commandments, Lynn Reynolds Breaking Into Society, Hunt Stromberg Bright Lights of Broadway. Webster Campbell The Bright Shawl, John S. Robertson The Broad Road, Edmund Mortimer Broadway Broke, J. Searle Dawley Broadway Gold, Edward Dillon Broken Hearts of Broadway, Irving Cummings The Broken Wing, Tom Forman Mothers-in-Law, Louis J. Gasnier Bucking the Barrier, Colin Campbell Burning Words, Stuart Paton The Buster, Colin Campbell The Call of the Canyon, Victor Fleming The Call of the Wild, Fred Jackman Cameo Kirby, John Ford Can a Woman Love Twice?, James W. Horne Canyon of the Fools, Val Paul A Chapter in Her Life, Lois Weber Chastity, Victor Schertzinger The Cheat. George Fitzmaurice Children of Dust. Frank Borzage Children of Jazz, Jerome Storm The Christian, Maurice Tourneur Circus Days. Eddie Cline The Clean-Up, William Parke The Common Law,George Archainbaud Cordelia the Magnificent, George Archainbaud The Country Kid, William Beaudine The Courtship of Miles Standish, Frederic Sullivan The Covered Wagon, James Cruze Crashin' Thru, Val Paul The Cricket on the Hearth, Lorimer Johnston Crinoline and Romance, Harry Beaumont Crooked Alley, Robert F. Hill Crossed Wires, King Baggot Cupid's Fireman, William A. Wellman The Custard Cup, Herbert Brenon Daddy, E. Mason Hopper The Dancer of the Nile, William P. S. Earle The Dangerous Age, John M. Stahl The Dangerous Maid, Victor Heerman The Daring Years, Kenneth Webb Dark Secrets, Victor Fleming The Darling of New York, King Baggot Daughters of the Rich, Louis J. Gasnier The Day of Faith, Tod Browning Daytime Wives, Emile Chautard Dead Game, Edward Sedgwick Defying Destiny, Louis Chaudet Desert Driven, Val Paul Desire, Rowland V. Lee The Destroying Angel, W. S. Van Dyke Divorce, Chester Bennett Does It Pay?, Charles Horan Dollar Devils, Victor Schertzinger Don Quickshot of the Rio Grande, George Marshall Don't Call It Love, William C. de Mille Don't Marry for Money, Clarence Brown Double Dealing, Henry Lehrman Drifting, Tod Browning Driven, Charles Brabin Drums of Fate, Charles Maigne The Drums of Jeopardy, Edward Dillon Dulcy, Sidney Franklin The Eagle's Feather, Edward Sloman East Side - West Side, Irving Cummings The Eleventh Hour, Bernard J. Durning Enemies of Women, Alan Crosland The Eternal City, George Fitzmaurice The Eternal Struggle, Reginald Barker The Eternal Three, Marshall Neilan Eyes of the Forest, Lambert Hillyer The Exciters, Maurice S. Campbell The Exiles, Edmund Mortimer The Extra Girl, F. Richard Jones The Face on the Bar-Room Floor, John Ford The Fair Cheat, Burton L. King The Famous Mrs. Fair, Fred Niblo Fashion Row, Robert Z. Leonard Fashionable Fakers, William Worthington The Fighting Blade, John S. Robertson The First Degree, Edward Sedgwick The Flame of Life, Hobart Henley Flaming Youth, John Francis Dillon The Flying Dutchman, Lloyd B. Carleton The Fog, Paul Powell Fog Bound, Irvin Willat Fools and Riches, Herbert Blaché The Footlight Ranger, Scott R. Dunlap Forgive and Forget, Howard M. Mitchell The Fourth Musketeer, William K. Howard The French Doll, Robert Z. Leonard A Friendly Husband, John G. Blystone Fury, Henry King Garrison's Finish, Arthur Rosson Gentle Julia, Rowland V. Lee The Gentleman from America, Edward Sedgwick A Gentleman of Leisure, Joseph Henabery The Ghost Patrol, Nat Ross Gimme, Rupert Hughes The Girl I Loved, Joe De Grasse The Glimpses of the Moon, Allan Dwan Going Up, Lloyd Ingraham The Girl of the Golden West, Edwin Carewe The Girl Who Came Back, Tom Forman The Gold Diggers, Harry Beaumont Goodbye Girls, Jerome Storm Gossip, King Baggot The Go-Getter, Edward H. Griffith The Grail, Colin Campbell The Gunfighter, Lynn Reynolds The Governor's Lady, Harry Millarde The Green Goddess, Sidney Olcott Grumpy, William C. de Mille Haldane of the Secret Service, Harry Houdini The Handy Man, Robert P. Kerr Hearts Aflame, Reginald Barker The Heart Raider, Wesley Ruggles Held to Answer, Harold M. Shaw Hell's Hole, Emmett J. Flynn Her Accidental Husband, Dallas M. Fitzgerald Her Fatal Millions, William Beaudine Her Reputation, John Griffith Wray Her Temporary Husband, John McDermott The Hero, Louis J. Gasnier His Children's Children, Sam Wood His Mystery Girl, Robert F. Hill Hollywood, James Cruze Homeward Bound, Ralph Ince Hoodman Blind, John Ford Human Wreckage, John Griffith Wray The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Wallace Worsley The Huntress, John Francis Dillon,Lynn Reynolds If Winter Comes, Harry Millarde In Search of a Thrill, Oscar Apfel In the Palace of the King, Emmett J. Flynn Innocence, Edward J. Le Saint The Isle of Lost Ships, Maurice Tourneur Itching Palms, James W. Horne Java Head, George Melford Jazzmania, Robert Z. Leonard Jealous Husbands, Maurice Tourneur Kentucky Days, David Selman Kindled Courage, William Worthington The Last Hour, Edward Sloman The Last Moment, J. Parker Read Jr. Law of the Lawless, Victor Fleming Lawful Larceny, Allan Dwan The Leavenworth Case, Charles Giblyn Legally Dead, William Parke The Leopardess, Henry Kolker Let's Go, William K. Howard Lights Out, Alfred Santell The Light That Failed, George Melford Little Church Around the Corner, William A. Seiter The Little Girl Next Door, W. S. Van Dyke Little Johnny Jones, Arthur Rosson Little Old New York, Sidney Olcott The Lone Star Ranger, Lambert Hillyer The Lonely Road, Victor Schertzinger Long Live the King, Victor Schertzinger Look Your Best, Rupert Hughes Lost and Found on a South Sea Island, Raoul Walsh Lovebound, Henry Otto The Love Brand, Stuart Paton The Love Letter, King Baggot The Love Piker, E. Mason Hopper The Love Pirate, Richard Thomas Loyal Lives, Charles Giblyn Lucretia Lombard, Jack Conway Madness of Youth, Jerome Storm The Mailman, Emory Johnson Main Street, Harry Beaumont The Man Between, Finis Fox The Man from Brodney’s, David Smith The Man Life Passed By, Victor Schertzinger The Man Next Door, Victor Schertzinger A Man of Action, James W. Horne The Man Who Won, William A. Wellman Man's Size, Howard M. Mitchell The Marriage Maker, William C. de Mille The Marriage Market, Edward LeSaint Mary of the Movies, John McDermott Masters of Men, David Smith Maytime, Louis J. Gasnier McGuire of the Mounted, Richard Stanton The Meanest Man in the World, Edward F. Cline Men in the Raw, George Marshall Merry-Go-Round, Erich von Stroheim The Midnight Alarm, David Smith The Midnight Guest, George Archainbaud Mighty Lak' a Rose, Edwin Carewe Mile-a-Minute Romeo, Lambert Hillyer A Million to Burn, William Parke The Miracle Baby, Val Paul The Miracle Makers, W. S. Van Dyke Modern Marriage, Victor Heerman Modern Matrimony, Lawrence C. Windom Money, Money, Money, Tom Forman Mr. Billings Spends His Dime, Wesley Ruggles The Mysterious Witness, Seymour Zeliff The Nth Commandment, Frank Borzage The Near Lady, Herbert Blaché The Ne'er Do-Well, Alfred E. Green The Net, J. Gordon Edwards No Mother to Guide Her, Charles Horan Nobody's Bride, Herbert Blaché Nobody's Money, Wallace Worsley A Noise in Newboro, Harry Beaumont North of Hudson Bay, John Ford An Old Sweetheart of Mine, Harry Garson On the Banks of the Wabash, J. Stuart Blackton One Stolen Night, Robert Ensminger Only 38, William C. de Mille Other Men's Daughters, Ben F. Wilson Our Hospitality, John G. Blystone,Buster Keaton Out of Luck, Edward Sedgwick Penrod and Sam, William Beaudine The Pilgrim, Charles Chaplin Pioneer Trails, David Smith Playing It Wild, William Duncan Pleasure Mad, Reginald Barker Poor Men's Wives, Louis J. Gasnier Potash and Perlmutter, Clarence G. Badger The Printer's Devil, William Beaudine The Prisoner, Jack Conway Prodigal Daughters, Sam Wood Pure Grit, Nat Ross Puritan Passions, Frank Tuttle The Purple Highway, Rufus Steele Quicksands, Jack Conway Racing Hearts, Paul Powell The Ragged Edge, F. Harmon Weight Railroaded, Edmund Mortimer The Ramblin' Kid, Edward Sedgwick Red Lights, Clarence G. Badger The Red Warning, Robert N. Bradbury Refuge, Victor Schertzinger The Remittance Woman, Wesley Ruggles The Rendezvous, Marshall Neilan Reno, Rupert Hughes Richard the Lion-Hearted, Chester Withey Romance Land, Edward Sedgwick Rosita, Ernst Lubitsch Rouged Lips, Harold M. Shaw Ruggles of Red Gap, James Cruze Rupert of Hentzau, Victor Heerman The Rustle of Silk, Herbert Brenon Safety Last!, Fred C. Newmeyer,Sam Taylor Salomy Jane, George Melford The Satin Girl, Arthur Rosson Sawdust, Jack Conway Scaramouche, Rex Ingram The Scarlet Car, Stuart Paton The Scarlet Lily, Victor Schertzinger Scars of Jealousy, Lambert Hillyer Second Fiddle, Frank Tuttle Second Hand Love, William A. Wellman The Self-Made Wife, John Francis Dillon Shadows of the North, Robert F. Hill The Shepherd King, J. Gordon Edwards The Shock, Lambert Hillyer Shootin' for Love, Edward Sedgwick The Shriek of Araby, F. Richard Jones The Silent Command, J. Gordon Edwards The Silent Partner, Charles Maigne Single Handed, Edward Sedgwick Sinner or Saint, Lawrence C. Windom Six Cylinder Love, Elmer Clifton Six Days, Charles Brabin The Six-Fifty, Nat Ross Sixty Cents an Hour, Joseph Henabery Skid Proof, Scott R. Dunlap Slander the Woman, Allen Holubar Slave of Desire, George D. Baker Slippy McGee, Wesley Ruggles The Snow Bride, Henry Kolker Snowdrift, Scott R. Dunlap The Social Code, Oscar Apfel Soft Boiled, John G. Blystone The Song of Love, Chester M. Franklin Soul of the Beast, John Griffith Wray Souls for Sale, Rupert Hughes South Sea Love, David Selman The Spanish Dancer, Herbert Brenon The Spoilers, Lambert Hillyer St. Elmo, Jerome Storm The Steadfast Heart, Sheridan Hall Stephen Steps Out, Joseph Henabery Stepping Fast, Joseph Franz Stormswept, Robert Thornby Strangers of the Night, Fred Niblo The Sunshine Trail, James W. Horne Suzanna, F. Richard Jones Tea: With a Kick!, Erle C. Kenton The Temple of Venus, Henry Otto Temporary Marriage, Lambert Hillyer Temptation, Edward LeSaint The Ten Commandments, Cecil B. DeMille Three Ages, Buster Keaton Three Jumps Ahead, John Ford Three O'Clock in the Morning, Kenneth S. Webb Three Who Paid, Colin Campbell Three Wise Fools, King Vidor The Thrill Chaser, Edward Sedgwick Thundergate, Joseph De Grasse Thundering Dawn, Harry Garson The Tie That Binds, Joseph Levering Tiger Rose, Sidney Franklin The Tiger's Claw, Joseph Henabery Times Have Changed, James Flood To the Ladies, James Cruze To the Last Man, Victor Fleming Toilers of the Sea, Roy William Neill The Town Scandal, King Baggot The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, Charles Maigne Trifling with Honor, Harry A. Pollard Trilby, James Young Trimmed in Scarlet, Jack Conway The Truth About Wives, Lawrence C. Windom Truxton King, Jerome Storm Twenty-One, John S. Robertson Under the Red Robe, Alan Crosland The Unknown Purple, Roland West Unseeing Eyes, Edward H. Griffith The Untameable, Herbert Blaché Vanity Fair, Hugo Ballin The Victor, Edward Laemmle The Virginian, Tom Forman The Voice from the Minaret, Frank Lloyd Wandering Daughters, James Young The Wanters, John M. Stahl The West~Bound Limited, Emory Johnson West of the Water Tower, Rollin S. Sturgeon What a Wife Learned, John Griffith Wray What Wives Want, Jack Conway When Odds Are Even, James Flood Where Is This West?,George Marshall Where the North Begins,Chester M. Franklin Where the Pavement Ends,Rex Ingram While Paris Sleeps,Maurice Tourneur The White Flower, Julia Crawford Ivers The White Rose, D. W. Griffith The White Sister, Henry King White Tiger, Tod Browning Why Worry?, Fred Newmeyer,Sam Taylor Wife in Name Only, George Terwilliger A Wife's Romance, Thomas N. Heffron Wild Bill Hickok, Clifford Smith The Wild Party, Herbert Blaché Within the Law, Frank Lloyd The Woman in Chains, William P. Burt The Woman of Bronze, King Vidor A Woman of Paris, Charles Chaplin Woman-Proof, Alfred E. Green The Woman with Four Faces, Herbert Brenon The World's Applause, William C. DeMille Yesterday's Wife, Edward LeSaint You Can't Fool Your Wife, George Melford Your Friend and Mine, Clarence G. Badger Zaza, Allan Dwan Sherwood Anderson – Many Marriages Gertrude Atherton – Black Oxen Arnold Bennett – Riceyman Steps Maxwell Bodenheim – Blackguard Elizabeth Bowen – Encounters (short stories) Thomas Alexander Boyd – Through the Wheat Max Brand – Seven Trails John Buchan – Midwinter Hall Caine – The Woman of Knockaloe Willa Cather – A Lost Lady Alphonse de Chateaubriant – La Brière (Passion and Peat) Agatha Christie – The Murder on the Links Jean Cocteau – Thomas l'imposteur (Thomas the Imposter) Colette – Green Wheat (Le Blé en herbe) Joseph Conrad – The Rover Marie Corelli – Love and the Philosopher Susan Ertz – Madame Claire Hans Fallada – Anton und Gerda Jeffery Farnol – Sir John Dering Lion Feuchtwanger – Die häßliche Herzogin (The Ugly duch*ess) J. S. Fletcher – The Charing Cross Mystery Zona Gale – Faint Perfume Garet Garrett – Cinder Buggy Philip Gibbs – The Middle of the Road[8] Kahlil Gibran – The Prophet Jaroslav Hašek – The Good Soldier Švejk (Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka za světové války) Ernest Hemingway – Three Stories and Ten Poems Hermann Hesse – Demian (first English-language edition) Georgette Heyer – The Great Roxhythe, Instead of the Thorn, The Transformation of Philip Jettan Winifred Holtby – Anderby Wold Aldous Huxley – Antic Hay Ernst Jünger – Sturm, D. H. Lawrence, Kangaroo The Fox, The Captain's Doll, The Ladybird: Three Novellas Maurice Leblanc – Les Huit Coups de l'horloge (The Eight Strokes of the Clock) David Lindsay – Sphinx Agnes Mure Mackenzie – Without Conditions Katherine Mansfield – The Doves' Nest and Other Stories (short stories, published posthumously) Stratis Myrivilis – Η ζωή εν τάφω (I zoí en tafo, Life in the Tomb; serialization) Zofia Nałkowska – Romans Teresy Hennert (The Romance of Teresa Hennert) Liam O'Flaherty – Thy Neighbour's Wife Frank L. Packard – The Four Stragglers Marcel Proust – The Prisoner (La Prisonnière, vol. 5 of In Search of Lost Time) Raymond Radiguet – Le Diable au corps (The Devil in the Flesh) William MacLeod Raine – Iron Heart Maurice Renard – New Bodies for Old (first English language edition of Le Docteur Lerne – Sous-Dieu (1908)) Joseph Roth – Das Spinnennetz (The Spider's Web) Rafael Sabatini – Fortune's Fool Dorothy L. Sayers – Whose Body? James Stephens – Deirdre Gene Stratton-Porter – The White Flag Italo Svevo – La Coscienza di Zeno Alexei Tolstoy – Aelita (Аэлита) Jean Toomer – Cane Sigrid Undset – The Bridal Wreath (English translation of Kransen by Charles Archer) Jules Verne The Castaways of the Flag, The Lighthouse at the End of the World E. C. Vivian – Fields of Sleep Edgar Wallace – Bones of the River, The Books of Bart, Captains of Souls, Chick (short stories), The Clue of the New Pin, The Green Archer, The Missing Million H. G. Wells – Men Like Gods Edith Wharton – A Son at the Front Margaret Widdemer – Graven Image William Carlos Williams – The Great American Novel Margaret Wilson – The Able McLaughlins P. G. Wodehouse – The Inimitable Jeeves, Leave It to Psmith Virginia Woolf – "Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street" Anzia Yezierska – Salome of the Tenements Cicely Mary Barker – Flower Fairies of the Spring (first in the Flower Fairies series of at least ten books) Vitaly Bianki – Whose Nose is Better? (Чей нос лучше?) Edgar Rice Burroughs – Tarzan and the Golden Lion Charles Boardman Hawes – The Dark Frigate Hugh Lofting – Doctor Dolittle's Post Office (third in the Doctor Dolittle series of 13 books) Lucy Maud Montgomery – Emily of New Moon (first in the Emily series of three books) Felix Salten – Bambi. Eine Lebensgeschichte aus dem Walde (Bambi, a Life in the Woods) Ruth Plumly Thompson – The Cowardly Lion of Oz (17th in the Oz series overall and the third written by her) Hugh Walpole – Jeremy and Hamlet (second in the Jeremy series of three books ) Tom Swift and his Flying Boat (26th in the original series) Bertolt Brecht – In the Jungle of Cities Gerald du Maurier – The Dancers Garnet Holme (adapted from Helen Hunt Jackson) – The Ramona Pageant Georg Kaiser – Side by Side (Nebeneinander) Seán O'Casey – The Shadow of a Gunman Elmer Rice – The Adding Machine Arnold Ridley – The Ghost Train Jules Romains – Knock (Knock, ou le Triomphe de la médecine) George Bernard Shaw – Saint Joan Marie Stopes – Our Ostriches Ernst Toller – Hinkemann Sergei Tretyakov – Do You Hear, Moscow? (Слышишь, Москва?!), Earth in Turmoil Sutton Vane – Outward Bound Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, The Crazy Locomotive (Szalona lokomotywa), Janulka, Daughter of Fizdejko (Janulka, córka Fizdejki), The Madman and the Nun (Wariat i zakonnica) Louise Bogan – Body of This Death: Poems E. E. Cummings – Tulips and Chimneys Robert Frost – New Hampshire (including "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening") Pablo Neruda – Crepusculario Sukumar Ray – Abol Tabol Wallace Stevens – Harmonium David Vogel – Lifney Hasha'ar Ha'afel (Before the Dark Gate) William Carlos Williams – Go Go, Spring and All Vladimir Arsenyev – Dersu Uzala Godfrey Benson, 1st Baron Charnwood – Theodore Roosevelt Algernon Blackwood – Episodes Before Thirty J. B. Bury – A History of the Later Roman Empire from the Death of Theodosius I to the Death of Justinian E. K. Chambers – The Elizabethan Stage Winston Churchill – The World Crisis (volumes 1 & 2 specifically) Le Corbusier – Vers une architecture (Toward an Architecture) Sigmund Freud – The Ego and the Id Khalil Gibran – The Prophet Robert Henri – The Art Spirit Rudyard Kipling – The Irish Guards in the Great War Arthur Moeller van den Bruck – Das Dritte Reich Mihai Ralea – L'Idée de la révolution dans les doctrines socialistes Mary Roberts Rinehart – The Out Trail Max Weber – Wirtschaftsgeschichte Rose Wilder Lane – The Peaks of Shala Discover 20 more properties from the public domain that you can adapt for free with this free guide. https://archive.org/details/last20 - the Sonny Bono Memorial Collection website; https://lifehacker.com/these-1923-copyrighted-works-enter-the-public-domain-in-1825241296- lists selects pulled from works released since January 1st, 2019; https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/31/18162933/public-domain-day-2019-the-pilgrim-jacobs-room-charleston-copyright-expiration- explains the Copyright Term Extension act while also listing works in the public domain; https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/public-domain- lists hundreds of books in the public domain; https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/public-domain-movies-sites/- offers ways to download and/or view films in the public domain; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_in_the_public_domain_in_the_United_States- lists and categorizes films existing in the public domain by title, director, stars, genre and studio. For all the latestScreenCraft news and updates, follow usonTwitter,Facebook, andInstagram.In the hands of the right storyteller, an existing Intellectual Property (IP) can be worth millions of dollars, and right now, the existing IP is seemingly king.
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Andrew Schwartz is a marketing professional and script reader working in the entertainment industry. He has written and read for outlets such as The Blcklst, BlueCat Screenplay, Final Draft and more. Find him on Twitter at @writingshorts or his Instagram page dedicated to The Sopranos, @sopranosgram.
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