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What does it mean in British English?

• deleted 5y ago
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• Doctor_Fegg 5y ago
  It relates to availability, not copyright. “Not secret” instead of “not copyrighted”. So if you say “the facts are in the public domain” in BrE, that might mean that they’ve been published in a newspaper. It doesn’t mean anything about their copyright status.
  • feeela 5y ago
    Still, in any other sane country on this planet, works in the public domain are to be used however one want's to.