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A Repository for Multimedia in the Public Domain?

Posted by Cliff on from the free-beer-music-and-video-clearinghouse dept.

8tim8 asks: "I was looking through my uni's record library yesterday (where they have lots of old jazz records) and it made me wonder, Is there anything like Project Gutenberg for audio or video files? I'm not talking about just a place to download old audio or video files, I'm talking about somewhere that has lots of old broadcasts/movies, and has actually checked to verify that what they have is in the public domain. It seems like there must be lots of stuff in the public domain...is there a place that let's people access it?"

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  1. wikimedia.org by Nos. · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

  2. Archive.org by FlipmodePlaya · · Score: 5, Informative

    Archive.org Moving Images Repository: http://www.archive.org/details/movies Archive.org Live Music Repository: http://www.archive.org/audio/etree.php I believe they collaborate with other projects to assemble these repositories, for instance their text database has Project Gutenberg's works (among others).

  3. Like Project Gutenberg? Oh... How about by InternetVoting · · Score: 5, Informative

    Project Gutenberg

    Did anybody notice that Project Gutenberg does do audio and video files?

    The wikipedia suggestions are good, also check out Creative Commons; not quite the same, but useful.