public domain
公共领域,公有领域,公众领域,公共事业
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Law.
- : the status of a literary work or an invention whose copyright or patent has expired or that never had such protection.
- : land owned by the government.
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It offers users access to books in the public domain, the option to buy additional books, and book recommendations from authors and other experts.
All Indigenous material has been found in the public domain.
These are some of the more famous names that will join the likes of Shakespeare and Beethoven in the public domain.
For example, we could require tech companies to make their patents available in the public domain after a few years, or to share their royalty profits in exchange for access to new markets.
Unlike, say, a road built by a construction company, this digital infrastructure is not necessarily in the public domain.
When cities started adding chlorine to their water supplies, in the early 1900s, it set off public outcry.
Not to be left behind, progressives in neighboring Wisconsin clamored to join the cutting edge of public health.
Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.
Great American leaders have long contributed profound thoughts of tremendous consequence to the public discourse.
Saved from the public gallows, Weeks was virtually exiled from the city, and wound up in Mississippi, where he raised a family.
As such it is now presented to the public for whatever meed of praise or censure it is found to deserve.
Five of the number had studied with Liszt before, and the young men are artists already before the public.
Many of these have been seen in the Corcoran Art Gallery and in other public exhibitions.
It was close upon twelve o'clock, and the "Rooms" had been open to the public for two hours.
It will be a busy session; and I want to see if I can't become a useful public man.