radio play scripts in the Public Domain?

Published January 21, 2011 | By Bman

Question by KityTheOriginalQueenOfTheWorld: radio play scripts in the Public Domain?
hey my friends and i want to do a radio play for fun… but we dont wanna risk getting in trouble for it, so we were trying to find some radio play scripts that are no longer copyrighted… are there any? where can i find a list of them or if i can read them online or download them that would be good. thx.

Best answer:

Answer by ron_mexico
I’m not aware of online sources that list out public domain radio scripts. You might have to determine the copyright status on a script-by-script basis.

Any radio scripts published prior to 1923 will automatically be in the public domain. Radio scripts published between 1923 and 1977 without a copyright notice will also be in the public domain.

The link below provides other situations where the radio script will also be in the public domain.
http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm

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