readily available thousands of public domain music files, many of which have been recorded by projects dedicated to recording music for public use. Music on the Creative Commons: The Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization created for the purpose of housing the public domain. The Commons allows copyright owners to dedicate their works to the public domain either immediately or, with the "Founders' Copyright" (originally created in the first American copyright law in 1790), can obtain an exclusive license for 14 or 28 years (if renewed) of copyright protection in exchange for selling their work to the Commons for one dollar after that protection has expired. Copyright owners can fill out an online application at https://creativecommons.org/ in order to apply. Public domain musical works and recordings can be uploaded onto the Wikimedia Commons website. See also Public domain film List of public domain tangos Copyright Term Extension Act LibriVox, an online digital library of free public domain audiobooks. Copyright collective Performance rights organisation Royalty free music References External links Sheet music https://musopen.org/sheetmusic/ http://www.mutopiaproject.org/index.html Musical culture