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WIthout wishing to rip off the Cambridge Dictionary — but hang it, it ''is'' in the public domain,<ref>https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/public-domain</ref> | WIthout wishing to rip off the Cambridge Dictionary — but hang it, it ''is'' in the public domain,<ref>https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/public-domain</ref> at least according to its own definition: | ||
{{quote|“if information is in the public domain, it is available for everyone to see or know about”}} | |||
That is the colloquial use | That is the ''colloquial'' use: “public domain” is really just a pompous way of saying “public”. | ||
This is a | But “public domain” also has a technical, narrower definition, that hails from the law of [[copyright]]: information that is “in the public domain” consists of all creative work, which ''could'' be protected by intellectual property rights, but which is not, whether because those rights have expired, been forfeited, waived, or for some other reason just don’t apply. | ||
This is a cue for those of take pleasure from such things, to raise a technical objection. | |||