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      • The term “public domain” refers to creative materials that are not protected by intellectual property laws such as copyright, trademark, or patent laws. The public owns these works, not an individual author or artist. Anyone can use a public domain work without obtaining permission, but no one can ever own it.
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  2. Apr 3, 2013 · Anyone can use a public domain work without obtaining permission, but no one can ever own it. An important wrinkle to understand about public domain material is that, while each work belongs to the public, collections of public domain works may be protected by copyright.

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  3. Apr 2, 2024 · All terms of copyright run through the end of the calendar year in which they would otherwise expire, so a work enters the public domain on the first of the year following the expiration of its copyright term. For example, a book published on 15 March 1925 entered the public domain on 1 January 2021, not 16 March 2020 (1925+95=2020).

  4. May 13, 2024 · The public domain is largely made up of of works that are ineligible for copyright protection, or the copyright on those works have expired. Permission is not necessary to use public domain works, because nobody "owns" the work from a copyright perspective.

  5. Apr 5, 2024 · Anyone is free to use works that are in the public domain without permission. Copyright -- the name for a set of exclusive rights to use intellectual works, typically these are retained by the creator of the work, or transferred to a publisher.

  6. Definitions of the boundaries of the public domain in relation to copyright, or intellectual property more generally, regard the public domain as a negative space; that is, it consists of works that are no longer in copyright term or were never protected by copyright law.

  7. public domain, category of creative works that are unprotected by intellectual property law. Since these works cannot be owned, they are free for anyone to use, adapt, reproduce, or distribute for commercial and noncommercial purposes.

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