( 
)What is Public Domain?
Anything which legally has no owner is said to be in the public domain.
Once there was even public domain land, but now public domain is pretty much limited to intellectual property where copyright protection has expired or the creator has formally given his work to the public.
There is no "official" list of public domain property because something becomes public domain due to the absence of any law giving anyone claim to ownership.
In effect, if no one on this entire planet can find any law which gives them legal claim to a property, then that property is in the public domain.
Anything which legally has no owner is said to be in the public domain.
Once there was even public domain land, but now public domain is pretty much limited to intellectual property where copyright protection has expired or the creator has formally given his work to the public.
There is no "official" list of public domain property because something becomes public domain due to the absence of any law giving anyone claim to ownership.
In effect, if no one on this entire planet can find any law which gives them legal claim to a property, then that property is in the public domain.
Guide created: 10/26/08 (updated 10/29/08)
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