looking for a list of popular media that don't have copyright (books, movies etc)
>>365888
Project Gutenberg has more than 54,000 copyright free eBooks, in a variety of digital media formats.
They are predominantly older books whose copyright has expired, but that covers a huge number of absolute classics that are well worth reading studying, and quoting from.
They are mostly in English, but also have some in French, German, and Portuguese.
http://www.gutenberg.org/
Movies:
Night of the Living Dead, every film made before 1923. A list of some films made after 1923 that are public domain:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_in_the_public_domain_in_the_United_States#Films