The U.S. has laws and the laws enforce and prohibit certain activities and protect certain rights. It gets tricky, even if you are a lawyer because some instances and cases have not been settled in court or defined explicitly in an Act or law.
For instance, did you know that each recording device sold requires the [...]

From my previous post I found “Miserlou” played by the Air Force. I managed to find some others that are pretty interesting. Some for the Christmas season, some patriotic songs, and a few hymns and ceremonials. Usually everything produced by the government is public domain, but things become tricky if they borrowed or used copyright [...]

About 20 mp3s are offered at Tuneresource.com supplying ancient folk, jazz, and blues before your day. If you can get past the annoying flash sound that loads on every page, you should see downward on the page (below the search box in the center) a drop down menu titled Free MP3 Tunes! with jazz and [...]

I’m a sucker for old music. It can be folk. It can be blues. It can be gospel. I’m not too picky, although I can get tired of Billy Murry, acoustic era skits, and unoriginal popular oldies.
WFMU is a diverse radio station that also delivers free podcasts through the internet. Mp3s are available for [...]

I hereby place the following poem in the public domain. (written October 31, 2005)
Nature bends its back
and the dry mouth
of a tall green cactus
spins a tornado of heat.
Time has turned around,
dripping past the sleeper.
Wasting away, wasting it may,
run away with the wind.
New sights of old
return to the fields.
Elderly earth gives birth
to a new season.
Covered with [...]