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Public domain
With regards to patents on the other hand, publishing the details of an invention before applying for a patent will generally
place an invention in the public domain and prevent its subsequent patenting by others. For example, once a journal publishes a
mathematical formula, it may no longer be used as the core of a claim in a software patent. There is an exception to this, however: in US (not European) law, an inventor may file a
patent claim up to one year after publishing it (but not, of course, if someone else published it first).
Laws may make some types of works and inventions ineligible for monopoly; such works immediately enter the public domain upon
publication. For example, US copyright law, 17 U.S.C. § 105,
releases all works created by the US government into the public domain, patent applications as part of the terms of granting the
patent to the invention are public domain, patent law excludes inventions that obviously follow from prior art, and agreements that Germany signed at the end of World War I released such trademarks as "aspirin" and "heroin" into the public domain in many areas.
Note that there are many works that are not part of the public domain, but for which the owner of some proprietary rights has
chosen not to enforce those rights, or to grant some subset of those rights to the public. See, for example, the Free Software Foundation which creates copyrighted software
and licenses it without charge to the public for most uses under a class of license called "copyleft", forbidding only proprietary redistribution. See also Wikipedia, which does much the same thing with its content under the GNU Free Documentation License. Sometimes such
work is mistakenly referred to as "public domain" in colloquial speech.
Note also that while some works (especially musical works) may be in the public domain, U.S. law considers transcriptions or
performances of those works to be derivative works, potentially subject to their own copyrights.
"Public access to literature, art, music, and film is esssential to preserving and building on our cultural heritage. Many of
the most important works of American culture have drawn upon the
creative potential of the public domain. Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life is a classic example of a film that
did not enjoy popular success until it entered the public domain. Other icons such as Snow White, Pinocchio, Santa Claus and Uncle Sam grew out of public domain figures."
([1] (http://www.creativecommons.org))
Historically, the vast majority of copyright and other licensing issues arising from misunderstandings about the legal
definition of "public domain" fell into two camps:
With the advent of the Internet, however, it became possible for anybody with access to this worldwide network to "post"
copyrighted or otherwise-licensed materials freely and easily. This aggravated an already established but false belief that, if
something is available through a free source, it must be public domain. Worse yet, once such material was available on the net,
it could be perfectly copied among thousands or even millions of computers very quickly and essentially without cost.
These factors have reinforced the false notion that "freely obtained" means "public domain". One could argue that the Internet
is a publicly-available domain, not licensed or controlled by any individual, company, or government; therefore, everything on
the Internet is public domain. This specious argument ignores the fact that licensing rights are not dependent on the
means of distribution or consumer acquisition. (If someone gives you stolen merchandise, it is still stolen, even if you weren't
aware of it.) Chasing down copyright violations based on the erroneous idea that "information is free" (see Footnotes below) has
become a primary focus of industries whose financial structure is based on their control of the distribution of such media.
Though this is legally correct, public support for these companies' efforts is significantly undermined by the belief that they
are receiving their "just desserts" for decades of price-gouging for licensed media. Ironically, this puts many creators of such
work, like musicians and authors, on both sides of the issue, since they have frequently fought media distributors over
inadequate compensation for their work, but depend on distributors' revenues for that compensation.
Another complication is that publishing exclusively on the Internet has becoming extremely popular. According to US law, at
least, an author's original works are covered by copyright, even without a formal notice incorporated into the work. But such
laws were passed at a time when the focus was on materials that could not be as easily and cheaply reproduced as digital media,
nor did they comprehend the ultimate impossibility of determining which set of electronic bits is original. Technically, any
Internet posting (such as blogs or emails) could
be considered protected material unless explicitly stated otherwise. (Many Internet content providers attempt to assert
copyrights by claiming all ownership and reproduction rights to any material posted to their servers, but the potential for
conflicting claims has not been adequately tested.) Traditional methods of proving original work, such as physically mailing a
sealed copy of one's work to oneself, thereby gaining a dated stamp from a governmental agency (i.e., the local Postal Service),
are irrelevant for this new source of creative work.
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