Copyright is a complex legal issue especially with the numerous amendments etc. Basically it is free of copyright BUT recordings would have copyright as would the printed music, that is, the music publisher would have copyright on his production of the printed score. An example is and please do not take this as binding legal advice - you decide to put on Carmen in your town hall so you photocopy the various parts of the score - your photocopying most likely breaches copyright. As I said its complex.
L'amour est un Oiseau Rebelle, Teresa Bizet (i tunes under Teresa Bizet)
Music that has been registered with the Copyright Office. Under present law, copyright exists upon creation of a work; the registration process creates a legal record of the work's existence, and its approximate date of creation. Copyright notices are recommended for any works that go outside the creator's control, whether the works are formally registered or not.
Nowhere. All Beatles songs are still protected by copyright and are NOT available for free.
Go work it out by ear you lazy dirt
Nowhere. Modern music is protected by copyright law and is NOT legally available anywhere for free.
Yes, You can CopyRight a domain name for Free.... Just type "CopyRight a Name for Free" at the top of the page.... Choose wisely!
L'amour est un Oiseau Rebelle, Teresa Bizet (i tunes under Teresa Bizet)
Using copyright-free materials is much cheaper and easier than negotiating for a license with the copyright holder of a protected work.
Free of copyright restrictions (generally speaking).
Text is not copyright-free unless it was created or published so long ago that the copyright has expired, or if the text does not qualify as having sufficient "creative work of original authorship" to trigger any copyright protection.
Free of copyright restrictions (generally speaking).
Images in the public domain, such as NASA imagery, would be copyright-free. People often use "copyright-free" to describe the millions of images on Flickr that carry Creative Commons licenses, but this is technically incorrect. The images are still protected by copyright, they simply have extraordinarily broad licenses that allow many uses without further permission.
Copyright protection is free and automatic, as soon as the work is fixed in a tangible medium.
In any country of the Berne Union (including the USA, Canada and all of Europe), copyright is completely free, instantaneous and automatic.
Copyright fees in the US range from $30 USD to $220 USD.
In most countries copyright is free, instantaneous and automatic.
You should always look for the copyright information. If there is none then you need to contact the author or owner of the material and ask them. Never assume. Most of the time though you'll see the license. It could be public domain, creative commons, copyright free, or copyrighted, etc, etc. Check the links below for copyright free resources.