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2. Public domain in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Although there is support in the statutes for allowing work to be dedicated to the public domain, there cannot be an unlimited right to dedicate work to the public domain because of a quirk of U.S. copyright law which grants the author of a work the right to cancel "the exclusive or nonexclusive grant of a transfer or license of copyright or of ...

3. Public domain - Wikipedia

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   In 2010, The Creative Commons proposed the Public Domain Mark (PDM) as symbol to indicate that a work is free of known copyright restrictions and therefore in the public domain. [42] [43] The public domain mark is a combination of the copyright symbol, which acts as copyright notice, with the international 'no' symbol.

4. Wikipedia:Free or semi-free non-Public-Domain information ...

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   DICT.org: Collection of dictionary databases in the public domain or under other free or semi-free licenses including GFDL consist of several public domain and semi-free dictionary resources. [2]. Open Music Registry - works under Open Audio License. MusicBrainz - MusicBrainz content about recorded music is public domain and Open Audio License.

5. Wikipedia:Granting work into the public domain - Wikipedia

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   It is controversial, however, whether it is possible for a copyright holder to truly abandon the copyright of their work. Robert A. Baron argues in his essay "Making the Public Domain Public" that "because the public domain is not a legally sanctioned entity," a statement disclaiming a copyright or "granting" a work into the public domain has ...

6. Wikipedia:Public domain - Wikipedia

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   In such cases, the movie will be in the public domain only when the book is in the public domain, too. Animated movies (cartoons) In short: Cartoons (animated movies or comic strips) enter the public domain only when the copyrights on both the movie or strip and the character have expired. With cartoons, a slightly different issue may arise.

7. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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   The Inaccessible Island rail ( Laterallus rogersi) is a bird found only on Inaccessible Island in the South Atlantic Tristan archipelago. This rail, the smallest extant flightless bird, was described by physician Percy Lowe in 1923. The adult has brown plumage, a black bill, black feet, and red eyes. It occupies most habitats on the island ...

8. Public-domain software - Wikipedia

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   From the software culture of the 1950s to 1990s, public-domain (or PD) software were popular as original academic phenomena. This kind of freely distributed and shared "free software" combined the present-day classes of freeware, shareware, and free and open-source software, and was created in academia, by hobbyists, and hackers. [2]

9. Wikipedia:Free content - Wikipedia

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   Wikipedia:Public domain – guideline about how the public domain applies to Wikipedia; Wikipedia:Adding open license text to Wikipedia - about how to use free content from other sources within Wikipedia; Wikipedia:The Free Encyclopedia – essay about how copyleft is used to provide a collaboration framework for Wikipedia