Public Domain (subtitled Songs from the Wild Land) is an album by American artist Dave Alvin, released in 2000.

In an interview with No Depression, Alvin stated that during the time of his father's terminal illness, he would go hiking in the mountains and would sing folk songs.

It finally dawned on me that those folk songs are poor people's therapy...

AllMusic critic Denise Sullivan wrote: "This is the work of a scholar as well as a master craftsman.

"[2] Robert Christgau wrote: "If Harry Smith is what some people love about folk music, this is what other people hate about it, summed up by a title that claims humility as it sneaks presumption in the stage door—a title worthy of a brilliant record and dishonored by this dull one...