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* [[Mother Goose]] characters, like Humpty Dumpty, Old King Cole, and Mother Goose.
* Alice and other characters from ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'' and ''Through the Looking-Glass''.
** One of [[Lewis Carroll]]'s minor stories, "What the Tortoise Said to Achilles", written in 1895, was appropriated (with acknowledgment) by Douglas R. Hofstadter as a model for the dialogues in ''[[
* [[Beowulf]]
* [[Peter Pan]]
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* As of 2022 ''[[Winnie-the-Pooh (book)|Winnie-the-Pooh]]'' is public domain, but ''not'' his red shirt (Disney created and owns that) or Tigger (who was introduced in the sequel and not public domain till 2024). The bear's entry into the public domain would be exploited by horror film ''[[Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey]]'', which used the shock value of turning a piece of children's media into a [[Slasher Movie]] to get maximum publicity. This worked out, and what was initially nearly in [[No Budget]] territory attracted mass media attention, leading to an increased budget for further shooting and post-production.
== Live
* Just as with films (see above), there are many American-produced TV series that have fallen into public domain. Or, as the case may be, only selected episodes have. Examples include ''[[Dragnet]]'', ''[[Bonanza]]'', many early episode of ''[[The Beverly Hillbillies]]'', ''[[Petticoat Junction]]'' (most of its first season, in fact), and about a dozen episodes of the ''Dick Van Dyke Show''. In some cases DVD and VHS releases of these episodes have to be re-edited to remove elements that are still in copyright, such as theme music.
** The Internet Archive has a collection of [https://archive.org/details/television public-domain TV shows and commercials available for download].
== Radio ==▼
* [https://archive.org/details/oldtimeradio Old Time Radio] is one of the Internet Archive's collections of works that have fallen into the public domain. Some of the shows went on the live-action TV, others are original.▼
▲== Religion, Folklore, & Mythology ==
* Characters from ancient Greek and Roman mythology and literature, such as [[Classical Mythology/Characters|Hercules]], [[The Iliad|Achilles]], [[Odyssey|Odysseus]], [[Oedipus]], [[Orpheus]], as well as the various gods and goddesses. [[Norse Mythology]] is also used as a background for many stories, but less often than Greek and Roman myths.
* [[Enigmatic Empowering Entity|The Lady of the Lake]]
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* [[The Illuminati]] and [[The Knights Templar]].
▲== Radio ==
▲* [https://archive.org/details/oldtimeradio Old Time Radio] is one of the Internet Archive's collections of works that have fallen into the public domain. Some of the shows went on the live-action TV, others are original.
== Web Original ==
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