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public domain
noun
- the status of a literary work or an invention whose copyright or patent has expired or that never had such protection.
- land owned by the government.
public domain
noun
- lands owned by a state or by the federal government
- the status of a published work or invention upon which the copyright or patent has expired or which has not been patented or subject to copyright. It may thus be freely used by the public
- in the public domainable to be discussed and examined freely by the general public
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of public domain1
Example Sentences
“Joyful association in the public domain is far better than watching television in our lifeless subdivisions,†Oldenburg proclaimed in a 2014 New York Times op-ed.
Wikipedia has strict rules for photography and copyright, so the pictures uploaded must be a contributor's own, freely licenced or in the public domain.
You won't see comments in the public domain, so as not to rock the transatlantic boat any further.
Yet, if that eventuality was so certain, why has the information about the £5m 'return clause' made it into the public domain?
The journalists spent four years checking their contents with contacts and against information already in the public domain.
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