{"id":81,"date":"2024-04-04T17:33:19","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T17:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openpress.digital.conncoll.edu\/ccguide\/chapter\/the-public-domain\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T17:34:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T17:34:26","slug":"the-public-domain","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/openpress.digital.conncoll.edu\/ccguide\/chapter\/the-public-domain\/","title":{"rendered":"The Public Domain"},"content":{"raw":"\n<span>The public domain refers to creative materials not protected by intellectual property laws. The public owns these works, not an individual author or artist. <\/span>\n\nThe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.copyright.gov\/help\/faq-definitions.html\">U.S. Copyright Office<\/a> maintains a list of common misconceptions about copyright including \"Where is the public domain?\" as if you go somewhere to get copyright-free material. The <span>public domain is not a place, so you don't go to the public domain you attain public domain material for repurposing. <\/span>\n\n<span>An original work is public domain if copyright has expired or it failed to meet the requirements for copyright protection. In most cases, any work created by a federal government employee or officer is public domain. These items may be used without permission, but attribution is recommended as a moral consideration.<\/span>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/fairuse.stanford.edu\/overview\/public-domain\/welcome\/\">Four common ways<\/a> that work becomes public domain (Stim, Stanford):\n<ul>\n \t<li>the copyright has expired<\/li>\n \t<li>the copyright owner failed to follow copyright renewal rules<\/li>\n \t<li>the copyright owner deliberately makes it public domain<\/li>\n \t<li>copyright law does not protect this type of work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"textbox shaded\">Each year on January 1, many copyrighted works lose their protected status and become public domain. This is celebrated as <strong>Public Domain Day<\/strong>. <a href=\"https:\/\/americanwritersmuseum.org\/new-works-to-enter-the-public-domain-in-2024\/\">Notable entries of 2024<\/a>, are <em>Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle<\/em> and Disney's <em>Steamboat Willie.<\/em><\/div>\n&nbsp;\n","rendered":"<p>The public domain refers to creative materials not protected by intellectual property laws. The public owns these works, not an individual author or artist. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.copyright.gov\/help\/faq-definitions.html\">U.S. Copyright Office<\/a> maintains a list of common misconceptions about copyright including &#8220;Where is the public domain?&#8221; as if you go somewhere to get copyright-free material. The public domain is not a place, so you don&#8217;t go to the public domain you attain public domain material for repurposing. <\/p>\n<p>An original work is public domain if copyright has expired or it failed to meet the requirements for copyright protection. In most cases, any work created by a federal government employee or officer is public domain. These items may be used without permission, but attribution is recommended as a moral consideration.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fairuse.stanford.edu\/overview\/public-domain\/welcome\/\">Four common ways<\/a> that work becomes public domain (Stim, Stanford):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the copyright has expired<\/li>\n<li>the copyright owner failed to follow copyright renewal rules<\/li>\n<li>the copyright owner deliberately makes it public domain<\/li>\n<li>copyright law does not protect this type of work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"textbox shaded\">Each year on January 1, many copyrighted works lose their protected status and become public domain. This is celebrated as <strong>Public Domain Day<\/strong>. <a href=\"https:\/\/americanwritersmuseum.org\/new-works-to-enter-the-public-domain-in-2024\/\">Notable entries of 2024<\/a>, are <em>Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle<\/em> and Disney&#8217;s <em>Steamboat Willie.<\/em><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"menu_order":5,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-81","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":77,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openpress.digital.conncoll.edu\/ccguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openpress.digital.conncoll.edu\/ccguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openpress.digital.conncoll.edu\/ccguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openpress.digital.conncoll.edu\/ccguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openpress.digital.conncoll.edu\/ccguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94,"href":"https:\/\/openpress.digital.conncoll.edu\/ccguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/81\/revisions\/94"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/openpress.digital.conncoll.edu\/ccguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/77"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/openpress.digital.conncoll.edu\/ccguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/81\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openpress.digital.conncoll.edu\/ccguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openpress.digital.conncoll.edu\/ccguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openpress.digital.conncoll.edu\/ccguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openpress.digital.conncoll.edu\/ccguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}