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If a work is within the public domain, it means that work may be used or modified or republished by any person, without need for royalties or fear of copyright infringement.
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Is Giradoux's Ondine in the public domain?
It is protected in France and other countries with a copyright term of life plus 70 years (such as the US), but in the public domain in shorter-term countries such as Canada.
What does Public domain software mean?
"Public domain software" is software that has moved into the public domain. You're free to copy, display, sell, or adapt it. No one owns the copyright on that software.
Where do copyrights go after they expire public domain?
When a copyright expires, the work enters the public domain. In the public domain, the work is no longer protected by copyright law, and anyone is free to use, reproduce, or modify it without permission or payment.
What is the term for a media piece that is ineligiable for protection by copyright?
Public domain -apex
What are four ways materials can be consider public domain?
Materials can enter the public domain when copyright term expires, protection is not renewed (renewals are not available for new works), the creator donates the work to the public domain, or the materials are a work of the US Government.
What is the status of an item out of copyright?
After copyright term has expired, materials enter the public domain.
What do you consider something that is no longer copyright?
Works for which the term of protection has expired are in the public domain.
Is the Poem The Shooting of Dan McGrew in the public domain?
Yes; Robert W. Service's works entered the public domain in Canada (and other countries that acknowledge the "rule of the shorter term") in 2009. Just to be contrary, that particular poem entered the public domain in the US in 2003.
What happens when the term of a copyright expires?
When the term of copyright protection expires, the work enters the public domain and can be reused with no limitations.
What is the term where the US government seizes property to build something public?
A taking by Eminent Domain.
Can you own an expired copyright?
Once copyright term expires, the material enters the public domain.
How much does your mama cost?
Your mama is a slang term that is in the public domain, so you can say it at no cost.
