Definitions for public domain
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. public domainnoun

   property rights that are held by the public at large

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1. public domainnoun

   The feature of intellectual property being not protected under patent or copyright, i.e. no person or other legal entity can establish proprietary interests.

2. public domainnoun

   Open land such as unowned prairie in the western and southwestern United States. Space not subject to a land patent.

3. public domainnoun

   Information about a subject which is accessible to anyone

4. public domainadjective

   Not subject to any copyright or patent restrictions.

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1. Public domain

   The public domain (PD) consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply. Those rights may have expired, been forfeited, expressly waived, or may be inapplicable. Because no one holds the exclusive rights, anyone can legally use or reference those works without permission. As examples, the works of William Shakespeare, Ludwig van Beethoven, Leonardo da Vinci and Georges Méliès are in the public domain either by virtue of their having been created before copyright existed, or by their copyright term having expired. Some works are not covered by a country's copyright laws, and are therefore in the public domain; for example, in the United States, items excluded from copyright include the formulae of Newtonian physics, cooking recipes, and all computer software created before 1974. Other works are actively dedicated by their authors to the public domain (see waiver); examples include reference implementations of cryptographic algorithms, and the image-processing software ImageJ (created by the National Institutes of Health). The term public domain is not normally applied to situations where the creator of a work retains residual rights, in which case use of the work is referred to as "under license" or "with permission". As rights vary by country and jurisdiction, a work may be subject to rights in one country and be in the public domain in another. Some rights depend on registrations on a country-by-country basis, and the absence of registration in a particular country, if required, gives rise to public-domain status for a work in that country. The term public domain may also be interchangeably used with other imprecise or undefined terms such as the public sphere or commons, including concepts such as the "commons of the mind", the "intellectual commons", and the "information commons".

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1. public domain

   Public domain refers to works, ideas, or information that are not owned or controlled by any individual, organization or entity. They are freely accessible and can be used, copied, modified or reproduced by anyone without the need for permissions or paying royalties. Works typically enter the public domain after the expiration of intellectual property rights or if the rights were intentionally forfeited by the creator.

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1. Public domain

   Works in the public domain are those whose intellectual property rights have expired, have been forfeited, or are inapplicable. Examples include the works of Shakespeare and Beethoven, The King James Bible, most of the early silent films, the formulae of Newtonian physics, and the patents on powered flight. The term is not normally applied to situations where the creator of a work retains residual rights, in which case use of the work is referred to as "under license" or "with permission". In informal usage, the public domain consists of works that are publicly available; while according to the formal definition, it consists of works that are unavailable for private ownership or are available for public use. As rights are country-based and vary, a work may be subject to rights in one country and not in another. Some rights depend on registrations with a country-by-country basis, and the absence of registration in a particular country, if required, implies public domain status in that country. Public Domain is one of the traditional safety valves in copyright law.

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1. • Property Right

How to pronounce public domain?

1. Alex

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   Karen

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How to say public domain in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of public domain in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of public domain in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of public domain in a Sentence

1. Bill Gates:

   It's like the IT space, some governments put the research into the public domain. Some license it. Then the start-up companies have to deal with intense competition.

2. Sebastian Coe:

   You have to say that the scope and scale of these allegations takes it beyond simply a competitor deciding to step beyond the moral boundary, the very fact that the allegations are in the public domain means that they are serious. So, we have to be very clear that this is a very, very difficult time for our sport.

3. Jeff Dennis:

   Although this was due to an old breach [ and ] this is old information, now it's out there in the public domain, anyone who has basic search skills can now go find that database and exploit it, which was not the case when the data was originally taken.

4. Anna Nici?ska:

   People exposed to Soviet Communism are less trustful in other people, the government and also the health care systems, [ the experience ] instills mistrust in the public domain and [ anything ] formal.

5. Thomas Modly:

   I believe, precisely because Brett Crozier is not naive and stupid, that Brett Crozier sent Brett Crozier alarming email with the intention of getting it into the public domain in an effort to draw public attention to the situation on Brett Crozier ship. I apologize for any confusion this choice of words may have caused.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=public domain
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Public_Domain
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Domain
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=public domain