Digital Media presentation BIT1SN Autumn 2011

1. PUBLIC
DOMAIN
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2. What is public domain?
 Consisting of works that are either ineligible for
copyright protection or with expired copyrights.
 A range of abstract materials commonly referred
to as intellectual property which are not owned or
controlled by anyone.
 A public property, and available for anyone to use
for any purpose.

3. Example
 Wikipedia

4. Misconceptions
 Posting a video to YouTube puts it in the public
domain.
 Anything I find on the Internet is in the public domain.
 If a work is in the public domain I don’t need to get
permission from anyone, no matter how I want to use
it.
 If a work has a copyright notice on it, it’s not in the
public domain.
(Source: http://www.publicdomainsherpa.com/10-
misconceptions-about-the-public-domain.html#four)