Sentence examples for public domain work from inspiring English sources

The case was reviewed by the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, which ruled that the novel was copyrighted upon its publication in 1923, and not a public domain work then.

Hachette claims the second book's typescript was eventually submitted "34 months" late, and was too short and substandard, "in large part an appropriation of a 120-year-old public domain work" (unnamed, but presumably 1897's Dracula).

& Mary L. Rev. 801, 874-75 & n.328 (1993) (permitting a defendant to show copying on the part of the plaintiff through circumstantial evidence that the plaintiff had access and created a work substantially similar to a public domain work).

Compare Jessica Litman, The Public Domain, 39 Emory L.J. 965, 1002-03 (1990) (explaining that a defendant is not entitled to any inference that a plaintiff copied from the public domain simply by showing access and substantial similarity to the public domain work), with Russ VerSteeg, Rethinking Originality, 34 Wm.

On the other, we have the attempt by individuals to use intellectual property rights to create a "commons," just as developers of free and open source software use the leverage of software copyrights to impose requirements of openness on future programmers, requirements greater than those attaching to a public domain work.

This has the side effect of centralizing and formalizing the copyright status of pre-1972 works; if you're a documentary producer or DJ looking for some music to use in your own project, you'll be able to easily check if some '60s record is rights-managed, in which case you can license it, or if it's an orphan, in which case you can safely use it like any other public domain work.

Public domain works available free from etext.virginia.edu/ebooks.edu/ebooks

Filmmakers have consistently used public domain works to anchor artistic and technological innovation.

Digital copies of public domain works may themselves be in the public domain.

Public domain works can be posted to course sites without permission or paying royalties.

Public domain works are open for use with no permission needed.