When writing earlier this week about Adobe's sponsoring of the SQLite project, I ran into a complicated issue: is software released into the public domain also open-source software? I have an editor ...

A discussion of Public Domain must begin with reviewing two standard definitions of the term “Public Domain.” The first definition relates to content being published or made available to the public, ...

The first of January ushers in a new year, a new month and new entries to the list of works in the public domain. While 2024 saw many popular intellectual properties lose copyright protection — ...

Celebrate the public domain with the University Libraries during the week of March 10! Works from Frida Kahlo, the Marx Brothers, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, and more all entered the public ...

Abstract: This essay considers positive, normative and political reasons for creating a map of the public domain and contiguous terrains. For far too many years, the public domain has either been ...