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Also, if the work is not yours but the author made a statement releasing it into the public domain, it is recommended (but not required) that you contact them to see if they'll additionally make a statement releasing all rights. If so, add a free-use license tag as well. The free-use tags that have been created for user contributions are:
This could have the effect of "certifying" that the author intended to release the software into the public domain. It does not seem that registration is necessary to release the software into the public domain, because the law does not state that public-domain status is conferred by registration. Judicial rulings support this conclusion; see ...
Works in the public domain are free for anyone to copy and use. Strictly speaking, the term "public domain" means that the work is not covered by any intellectual property rights at all (copyright, trademark, patent, or otherwise). [115] However, this article discusses public domain with respect to copyright only.
Publication of an otherwise protected work by the U.S. government does not put that work in the public domain. For example, government publications may include works copyrighted by a contractor or grantee; copyrighted material assigned to the U.S. Government; or copyrighted information from other sources. [5]
Therefore, it is the policy of this State that the people may obtain copies of their public records and public information free or at minimal cost unless otherwise specifically provided by law." [27] The State Library of North Carolina considers state documents within its collection to be in the public domain according to U.S. copyright law. [28]
List of films in the public domain in the United States; The Hirtle Chart illustrates the various possible copyright states for works published in the US in 1929 or later; works published before 1929 are all in the public domain.
There are multiple licenses which aim to release works into the public domain. In 2000 the WTFPL was released as a public domain like software license. [59] Creative Commons (created in 2002 by Lawrence Lessig, Hal Abelson, and Eric Eldred) has introduced several public-domain-like licenses, called Creative Commons licenses. These give authors ...
Seeing something on the Internet without a copyright notice does not mean that it is in the public domain. If public domain work is included in a copyrighted product then the new product is not public domain. The portions of the new copyrighted work that are from a public domain source may be removed and copied without permission.