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].