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> I wonder why are they not public domain? Not all countries have the concept of public domain, meaning the authors don't have a legally defined way to give up
by distances 7y ago
> I wonder why are they not public domain?
Not all countries have the concept of public domain, meaning the authors don't have a legally defined way to give up all of their rights. CC0 is the usual license in these cases.
Don't know about UK though.
- matthewheath 7y agoYes, we have the concept of public domain here in the UK. Works typically enter the public domain 70 years after the death of the creator, however there are various exceptions.
- greyman 7y agoI agree, and moreover, "non-commercial" usage excludes almost every practical use. I used to work in media and we found photographers have different understandings what this license means. Some were ok to use their photo for illustration purposes for example in our article, while others were offended that editorial is not non-commercial. We quickly made a rule to not touch anything non-commercial. So basically those photos cannot be normally re-published, since almost everyone has some commercial element included in their outlet, and then you are in the grey zone.
- kragen 7y agoI don't know of any countries that don't have a concept of the public domain at all, but there are countries where authors can't put their works into it, which is a different question from whether it exists at all. I don't think Shakespeare's First Folio is in copyright in any country in the world, for example. Here in Argentina we did have a misguided attempt to impose a tax on the reproduction of public-domain works (the Canon Digital) which fortunately failed; it would have essentially outlawed Wikipedia.