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public domain

Summary

public domain is a copyright status[1]. It draws 5,051 Wikipedia views per month (copyright_status category, ranking #1 of 2).[2]

Key Facts

  • public domain's image is recorded as Public Domain Mark button.svg[3].
  • public domain's instance of is recorded as copyright status[4].
  • public domain's instance of is recorded as legal term or legal concept[5].
  • public domain's instance of is recorded as law[6].
  • public domain's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85108633[7].
  • public domain's subclass of is recorded as public good[8].
  • public domain's Commons category is recorded as Public domain[9].
  • public domain's said to be the same as is recorded as DP[10].
  • public domain's opposite of is recorded as copyrighted[11].
  • public domain's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/05smz[12].
  • public domain's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph609499[13].
  • public domain's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Public domain[14].
  • public domain's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300055611[15].
  • public domain's facet of is recorded as copyright[16].
  • public domain's facet of is recorded as copyright law[17].
  • public domain's described by source is recorded as Dictionnaire des biens communs[18].
  • public domain's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/public-domain[19].
  • public domain's topic has template is recorded as Template:PD[20].
  • public domain's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'PD'}[21].
  • public domain's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'mul', 'text': '🅮'}[22].
  • public domain's different from is recorded as Allautopartstore.com[23].
  • public domain's different from is recorded as PD[24].
  • public domain's FAST ID is recorded as 1082223[25].
  • public domain's has list is recorded as list of films in the public domain in the United States[26].
  • public domain's hashtag is recorded as PublicDomain[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for public domain include Public Domain Day[28], an observance[29], founded in 2004[30] and Public Domain Map[31], an open data project[32], founded in 2021[33].

Why It Matters

public domain draws 5,051 Wikipedia views per month (copyright_status category, ranking #1 of 2).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[34] It is known by 89 alternative names across languages and contexts.[35]

Entities named for it include Public Domain Day[28], an observance[29], founded in 2004[30] and Public Domain Map[31], an open data project[32], founded in 2021[33].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . National Library of Israel Names and Subjects Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . xn--abkrzung-85a.info. Retrieved . xn--abkrzung-85a.info. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . creativecommons.org. creativecommons.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [31] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [34] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [35] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). public domain. Retrieved March 11, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/public-domain
MLA “public domain.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 11 Mar. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/public-domain.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_public-domain_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{public domain}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/public-domain}, note = {Accessed: 2026-03-11}}
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