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If it's public domain, there is no copyright holder, no? https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/public-domain/welcome/ https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/pub
by zimpenfish 7y ago
If it's public domain, there is no copyright holder, no?
https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/public-domain/welcome/ https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/public-domain/welcome/
> The term “public domain” refers to creative materials that are not protected by intellectual property laws such as copyright, trademark, or patent laws
(my emphasis)
- incompatible 7y agoYes, if it's public domain, there's no copyright holder, and it's impossible (and unnecessary) for anybody to license it. This is about the situation that the US government is not permitted to obtain copyrights for their own work in the US, but there's apparently nothing to stop it being copyrighted in other countries.