What Is Public Domain?

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."

Comments

Re:Part of copyright should be the right to not

[vladedivac]

yeah, but how are you going to feel when you place, say, a photo out there completely copyright free for use by independent filmmakers, and some guy creates the next multi-million dollar box-office hit with your picture in every scene? ~vlade