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That is the ''colloquial'' use: “public domain” is really just a pompous way of saying “public”. | 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 that ''could be'' protected by [[intellectual property]] rights, but | 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 that ''could be'' protected by [[intellectual property]] rights, but ''isn’t'', whether because those rights have expired, been forfeited, waived, or for some other reason just don’t apply. | ||
The [[OneNDA]] itself is “in the public domain” in this narrow way. But much of the information one may share under it is not. Yet, in its “carve out” from the scope of confidentiality, version one uses the expression “public domain” rather than simply “public”. | The [[OneNDA]] itself is “in the public domain” in this narrow way. But much of the information one may share under it is not. Yet, in its “carve out” from the scope of confidentiality, version one uses the expression “public domain” rather than simply “public”. | ||