Freed From Copyright, These Classic Works Are Yours To Adapt

American actor Theodore Roberts as Moses in Cecil B. DeMille’s silent version of The Ten Commandments — one of many works from 1923 that entered the public domain.

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Think Tarzan and the Golden Lion needed a different ending?

Perhaps you want to adapt Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet into a graphic novel.

Or maybe you want to have a go at incorporating Robert Frost’s poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” into a virtual choir piece, as composer Eric Whitacre once did before encountering a copyright snag that killed the project.