Comments on: Public understanding of the 'public domain' http://openbiblio.net/2007/04/20/public-understanding-of-the-public-domain/ Open Bibliographic Data Working Group of the Open Knowledge Foundation Wed, 26 Nov 2014 08:29:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.3.1 By: mhholloway http://openbiblio.net/2007/04/20/public-understanding-of-the-public-domain/#comment-115 Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:00:28 +0000 http://www.publicdomainworks.net/2007/04/20/public-understanding-of-the-public-domain/#comment-115 That’s good to know, Rufus, thanks very much. Assumed we’d be educating the general publicm but suppose we also need to re-educate the legal profession on the latent merits of the public domain.

]]> By: rgrp http://openbiblio.net/2007/04/20/public-understanding-of-the-public-domain/#comment-114 Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:12:51 +0000 http://www.publicdomainworks.net/2007/04/20/public-understanding-of-the-public-domain/#comment-114 I don’t think our usage of the term ‘public domain’ depends on an ’emerging’ notion — rather the IP-expert solicitor seems to be using the term in a rather special (and unusual) way. For example check out the UK Copyright Service who write:

2. What happens when copyright expires?

When the term of copyright protection has expired, the work falls into the public domain. This means that the work, has effectively become public property and may be used freely.

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