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If it is no longer protected because the copyright has expired or been voluntarily terminated by the author it is said to reside in the public domain. In terms of software that is written intentionally without copyright protection it is referred to as "open-source"

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Either public domain or, in the case of software, opensource.

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if you meant considered to be bad to copy it then no.. a copyright means you must pay tribute to them in order to use it , if its not protected then its a free market

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