(115) The reason why open source software is not simply donated to the public domain by the creators is that it would then be possible for someone else subsequently to take it out of the public domain by claiming intellectual property rights in it.
[t]hough journalists frequently and mistakenly claim otherwise, neither "free software," nor most "open-source software" is in the public domain. After all, the thing that makes open-source software work is the General Public License.
definition of the public domain: (1) works whose copyright term has
work, which is in the public domain, but no one has yet calculated it in
Klinger felt that, since a majority of the Holmes stories are in the
public domain, he should not have to pay a licensing fee.
In our case, although, I am not certain it will only be a single child who will be killed here, nor am I so sure that we are curing the world's diseases; however, one thing is clear: the
public domain will remain open.
Music available from approved
public domain websites.
public domain and what types of works are available outside of
Ken Basin of Greenberg Glusker notes that a new project based on a
public domain property that has already been adapted must be careful to draw from the original work and not the adaptation.
In order to have a clear understanding and for a better structure of the notions, the doctrine defined the
public domain of the state and of the administrative-territorial units as the total amount of goods found in public property, and the other goods that belong to the same holders are in their private property and form the private domain of the state and the administrative-territorial units.
In a 6-2 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that Congress did not violate the First Amendment by taking works in the
public domain and placing them under copyright protection.