US Public Domain Checker (books, films, music, art)
Pricing
from $5.00 / 1,000 public domain checks
Returns the US public-domain status of each book, film, song, recording or artwork you list (public domain, likely, check renewal, protected or unknown), the date it enters the public domain, the rule, caveats and a confidence score. Uses Wikidata and US Copyright Office rules.
You can access the US Public Domain Checker (books, films, music, art) programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.
1from apify_client import ApifyClient2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")6
7# Prepare the Actor input8run_input = { "works": [9 {10 "id": "W-1",11 "title": "Frankenstein",12 "creator": "James Whale",13 "type": "film",14 "year": 1931,15 },16 {17 "id": "W-2",18 "title": "The Great Gatsby",19 "creator": "F. Scott Fitzgerald",20 "type": "book",21 "year": 1925,22 },23 {24 "id": "W-3",25 "title": "Heebie Jeebies",26 "creator": "Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five",27 "type": "sound_recording",28 "year": 1926,29 },30 {31 "id": "W-4",32 "title": "Beloved",33 "creator": "Toni Morrison",34 "type": "book",35 "year": 1987,36 },37 ] }38
39# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish40run = client.actor("robot-supply-store/us-public-domain-checker").call(run_input=run_input)41
42# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)43print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")44for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():45 print(item)46
47# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-startThe Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use US Public Domain Checker (books, films, music, art) API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: