Re: public domain question

On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Robert A. Baron <rabaron[_at_]pipeline.com> wrote:
>
> I have a question about the public domain that I want to ask without
> supplying the context for asking it (to be explained later):
>
> When you think of the Public Domain, do you think of a body of works
> owned in common by everybody or do you think of a body of works owned
> by nobody?

In English Law it is something of which so much is known that it is no longer capable of protection by the law of confidence.

As your question suggests, in copyright law, on this side of the pond anyway, it usually creates more confusion than light.

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