Browse 130 entries in the catalog.
Free, libre and open licensed or public domain
The Authors Alliance embraces the unprecedented potential digital networks have for the creation and distribution of knowledge and culture. We represent the interests of authors who want to harness this potential to share their creations more broadly in order to serve the public good.
A site of microfiction where you can add sequels and prequels to the writing of others.
'Working to promote free art and abolish copyright through making quality comics and images distributed through open-licenses.'
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Classic novel of a sea captain on the hunt for a great white whale.
A website that preserves out-of-copyright books.
A whimsical children's picturebook.
The first book in an epic fantasy series.
Hard boiled pseudo-Lovecraftian space noir with squishy (and doomed, of course) romantic bits.
A collection of random concept and word generators for story gamers.
'A book that arouses children's interest in tinkering and encourages shaping technology.'
A fiction author.
The African Storybook initiative aims to address the shortage of contextually appropriate books for early reading in the languages of Africa. Our vision is for all young African children to have enough enjoyable books to read in a familiar language to practise their reading skills and learn to love reading.
Our vision is for all African children to have enough stories in a language familiar to them to practise reading and learn to love reading.
My name is Barry Deutsch, and I write and draw Ampersand, a political comic with a generally progressive sensibility.
A book for children introducing them to words and concepts.
Biodigital is a novel, first published as an Ebook via Unglue.it, about a Silicon Valley tech genius/messiah and the quasi-religious cult of transhumanist computer designers and brain hackers who follow him.
Children's books, focused on Africa.
Metaphors for Designing Fair Intellectual Property Laws
Gratis public domain comics.
Gratis public domain comics.
A new Roman script.
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''The inhabitants of this future Web reside in a closed system, where all possible experiences will soon be exhausted. The Web is winding down, falling into stasis. Here, Flatline is a brief infusion of novelty, bringing chaos to the system.''
"Faded Page is an archive of eBooks that are provided completely free to everyone."
A magazine of short stories.
Microfiction
Web comic/open world project
'Fodongo is a Free-Culture, Indie Comics zine project organized, edited and put together by Jectoons for Jectoons.net.'
FAL
This database offers access to tens of thousands of high resolution images from the Folger Shakespeare Library, including books, theater memorabilia, manuscripts, and art.
Fiction and non-fiction on the future of copyright.
Short fiction and non-fiction on the future of copyright.
Glider Ink is a project aiming to create the first graphic novel about hackerspaces, introducing communities and their values to the wider audience.
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A sci-fi novel.
Disturbed teen meets impassible therapist meets faceless killer meets white trash drama. A compact, rapid-fire psychological thriller.
A dieselpunk novel with Spanish-created robot hobos in a balcanized America at the beginning of the XX century. - that anyone can edit, fork and contribute to.
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An Odia author and academic.
GNU FDL
John Colagioia's blog - including the Free Culture Book Club.
A game designer and comic creator.
GPL
A webcomic which often covers copyright-related issues.
A picturebook about a bear.
A Portuguese-language novella about a private detective searching for his missing uncle.
A public doman, communist-era superhero.
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A motion comic of episode 6 of Pepper & Carrot.
A whimsical webcomic about a witch and her cat.
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A book.
Anthology of science fiction short stories.
Reviews and catalogues of works in the public domain.
A wiki of superheroes and villains that have lapsed into the public domain.
Jenny Everywhere
Author, some of whose works are CC licensed
Lunduke is a game designer and comic creator.
A short story by Leonard Kirke.
Wiki describing X-Files-like phenomena.
A modern take on the Scarlet Pimpernel with a mild superhero flair.
Lately, most of my writing has been on long-form projects. Because of this, I sometimes write a short (most times comedic, other times not so much) to break up the monotony of those longer projects.
A cute explanation of how Creative Commons licenses work
A science-fiction audiobook series
New Brothers Whim picturebook.
Browse StoryWeaver, where you can read, create, translate, or download an endless stream of stories.
A blog of stories, games and public domain art.
An 18th Century ballad opera.
'"The Jeremy Kellerman Blog!" was created in February of 2011 as an outlet for the writings of Michigan-based creative genius and self-help guru Jeremy Kellerman and his associates.'
The Comic Strip Library is a digital library containing a collection of public domain comic strips.
The second in a trilogy of fantasy novels.
An unbounded Science Fiction Universe available under Creative Commons 4.0 BY-SA for development by authors, artists, game designers, and other creatives.
Public domain comics, gratis to view but difficult to download.
An open content take on Thomas More's Utopia.
A NaNoWriMo novel.
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Online choose your own adventure games.
A great modern novel.
A poet.
An art installation.
Adventures of a kind-hearted wolf.
A collection of musical compositions, audiobooks and songs.
Non-free, libre and open licensed
These entries may not be free, libre and open.
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A webcomic.
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Audiobooks.
A modern translation.
A comic book about intellectual property law.
A novel about an Al-Qaida agent under interrogation.
Six of Cory Doctorow's short stories in comic book form.
'Diesel Sweeties is a pixelated webcomic by Richard Stevens 3 that has been continuously updated since April 2000. Sometimes the people kiss the robots. Be warned.'
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A book of the near future.
'My attempt at grappling with issues of feminist dialectic in a short, entertaining fashion. Or, if you prefer, a story about a piece of software that turns loneliness into cash.'
An introduction to Google's open source browser project.
A comic.
A sad story about a miserable kid and the perils of fish telepathy. Despite this flippant description, I consider this one of my more successful horror stories.
Part of the deal with the Ardwin ransom was that I agreed to write a story for ten of the $50+ donors. Each one got to dictate one element for inclusion.
An organisation devoted to permanent access to digital collections.
Jenny Everywhere, aka the Shifter, is the world's first open source superhero.
Jenny Everywhere
A hacker, wrongly imprisoned, tries to take down the police state.
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A website for nerds with a Minecraft webcomic
'Nose Ears is an absurd comic about the absurd things in life.'Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 (Unported)
'Stories of the future present'
Pirate Cinema successfully follows the same pattern as his previous YA novels, mixing an adventurous, whip smart young main character with a relevant socio-political theme and wrapping all of it in a fast-paced, entertaining story.
'Winner of the 2008 Richard Eastman fiction prize, “Regret, With Math” is about a young man who studies the martial arts, or doesn’t, and who dates his former college buddy’'s ex- girlfriend, or doesn’t, and who gets in horrible, life altering trouble. Or possibly doesn’t. It’s also about parallel universe theory.'
Hand selected comics from the gratis webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.
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Read to live. Live to read.
[A]n interactive, searchable role playing resource
A political satire about the situation that used to prevail in the Israeli-Lebanese boder.
CC BY-SA
The second SMBC compilation, featuring comics from the entire archive, but focused on 2011.
'44 stories. 19 poems. No sparkly vampires. There’s a thin line between genius and insanity, and James Hutchings has just crossed it – but from which direction?'
Sci-fi about human-cyborg relations.
A new comic book covering 2000 years of musical borrowing, from Plato to rap.
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Poems.
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The world's first Ubuntu manga.
A website that hosts three comics.
Literature written by a collective.
A cartoonist whose books have been Creative Commons licensed.
''Deadly. Mercenary. Superhuman. Not your ordinary math geek.''
A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.