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. public domain

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1. • Property Right

How to pronounce public domain?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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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. Jacinda Ardern:

   The GCSB have raised concerns, that is in the public domain, they have gone back to Spark with those concerns, now the ball is in Spark's court, that is literally where the process sits.

2. 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.

3. Bernard Sanders:

   In the long run, what has got to happen on the national level and on the state level is the people of this state and country have got to stand up to the 2 or 3 % of the population that controls the economy, and the billions and billions and billions of dollars owned and controlled by these people have got to come within the public domain.

4. Zumretay Arkin:

   The internet is a very powerful tool. Without it, our cause wouldn’t be where it is. But once your name or your face is in the public domain, you become a target, i know that it has consequences. But I’m also thinking about the Uyghurs who are detained, and my family members who have disappeared. At the end of the day, even if you’re silent, your relatives are going to be targeted anyway.

5. John Bolton:

   I've been trying to take steps with the national security staff. It's something I work with John Kelly, the chief of staff, with a lot of other people. Look, the President has to have advisers around him who can have open, candid discussions and then not read about him the next day in the newspapers or watch them on television and to the extent that those conversations are being discussed in the public domain. It hurts the ability of the President to be fully informed to make his decision.

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