Actually, Even more recent stuff can be in public domain. Take a look at this page
http://www.lawrence.edu/library/guides/pubdomain.shtml for more infromation about finding public domain content.
One good source of PD content is Project Gutenberg. You can even order 9400 books on DVD for free (They sent me two DVDs a week ago!!!) .
http://www.gutenberg.org/cdproject/
Another example of how a lady is earning big bucks from public domain content is [url="http://www.scienceofgettingrich.net/"]
] Science of Getting Rich 