There's no doubt that open-source software and that in the public domain are similar. But even experts differ about just how closely linked they are. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

A discussion of Public Domain must begin with reviewing two standard definitions of the term “Public Domain.” The first definition relates to content being published or made available to the public, ...

The jurisdiction of the general public. It refers to intellectual property that has either been voluntarily placed in the public domain by its author or that has passed its copyright, trademark or ...

Information that is available to the public is excluded from export controls. However, there are differences between how the ITAR and EAR treat this exclusion. They share the idea that publicly ...

As the ball dropped over Times Square last night, all copyrighted works published in 1923 fell into the public domain (with a few exceptions). Everyone now has the right to republish them or adapt ...