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What Is Public Domain?

Posted by timothy on from the and-such-small-portions dept.

whitefox writes: "The Seattle Times has an interesting article in today's edition on what is public domain. After sharing the experience one software writer had with businesses and people shying away from BitTorrent because they didn't understand the concept of 'public domain,' they take the reader on a tour of how public domain is being defined by groups such as Creative Commons and to the battle of copyright-extensions in Eldred v. Ashcroft."

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  1. Re:Obvious Headline by brejc8 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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  2. Re:Part of copyright should be the right to not by Amazing+Quantum+Man · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Given your acting abilities, Vlade, as seen in the recent Laker series, I doubt that you have to worry about it. What'd you do, go to the Bill Laimbeer School of Acting? Your flops are totally unbelievable!

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