Public domain

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Public domain
/ˈpʌblɪk dəʊˈmeɪn/ (n.)

WIthout wishing to rip off the Cambridge Dictionary — but hang it, it is in the public domain, at least according to its own definition:

“if information is in the public domain, it is available for everyone to see or know about”

That is the colloquial use: “public domain” is really just a pompous way of saying “public”.

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.

Version one of the OneNDA uses the expression “public domain”.

Experienced hands will not be surprised to hear this is a cue for those who take pleasure from such things, to raise a technical objection.