Dear Rich: Ian Fleming's Casino Royale  entered the public domain in Japan in 2015, 50 years after his death. The same 50-year rule appl...

Dear Rich: I run a volunteer-run/non-profit educational program for students who have failed the Naplex several times. I saw PowerPoints p...

Listen to Bessie Smith Dear Rich: I'm trying to determine if a recording of a song from 1923 is in the public domain for use as backgrou...

Frida Kahlo age 12 (1919) Dear Rich: I'm filming a romantic comedy in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and refer to the artist Frida Kah...

Dear Rich: I am writing a historical fantasy novel, and I want to incorporate elements from Henry Gilbert's Robin Hood (1911). Despite ...

Ulysses S. Grant -  Virginia, June 1864 Dear Rich: I am writing a book about the Civil War. I would like to include certain quotes from let...

Dear Rich: I have an album project where I have two "traditional" songs that are being performed in an original manner. Can I list...

Dear Rich: I am part of an organization that is over 130 years old. One of the founders wrote and published a book in 1899 (in the USA and...

Speaking of the public domain, the Public Domain Review has an informative essay (“ The Mark of the Beast ”) about the first anti-vaxxers De...

Dear Rich: Which (if any) US postage stamp images are in the public domain? I have read that stamps issued prior to 1978 are in the publ...

Dear Rich: I want to copyright a report I researched and wrote and hope to sell to a museum.  My report includes my collection of 19th-centu...

Dear Rich: If a movie falls into the public domain, are all of the individual images in it also public domain? What if the image is of a mov...

Dear Rich: A company in Florida filed a trademark on "Louise Brooks" and has used that to remove all Louise Brooks items off of Et...

  Dear Rich: I'm really hoping you can answer my question. I'm in the process of publishing a book that will contain lots of imag...

Dear Rich: I have just finished writing a fantasy novel. I have used public domain quotes within the novel (from Aristotle, Lincoln, etc.), ...

Criterion's pristine  version of "The Naked Kiss" Dear Rich: I'm having a debate over the legitimacy of a chain of ti...

Dear Rich: Is the 1936 novel, War with the Newts , by Karel Čapek copyrighted? Can I write (or legally sell) a screenplay based on the boo...

Dear Rich: I have an extensive collection of original antique photo prints. Some are art photos, some are amateur/snapshot photos, some a...

Dear Rich: We are publishing a book in conjunction with a museum exhibit. The artwork in the exhibit was inspired by D.H. Lawrence's p...

British illustrator Cecil Aldin (1870 - 1935)  with one of his furry subjects Dear Rich: Can I sell black and white images by Cecil Ald...