Assertion: license's work | /r/AtLocation | public domain
Facets:
value: worldwide
type: LOCATION
value: as examples
type: OTHER
value: by virtue
type: CAUSE
value: by statute in the united states
type: OTHER
value: of one jurisdiction
type: LOCATION
value: in the public domain
type: LOCATION
value: sometimes
type: TEMPORAL
value: truly
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: If a work is truly in the public domain, this is usually not legally required, but a United States copyright registration requires disclosing material that has been previously published, and attribution may still be considered an ethical requirement in academia.
text: Works produced by civilian and military employees of the United States federal government in the scope of their employment are public domain by statute in the United States (though they may be protected by copyright outside the U.S.).
text: A work may be part of the public domain because the applicable term of copyright has expired, because the rights holder surrendered copyright in the work with a tool like CC0, or because the work did not meet the applicable standards for copyrightability.
text: Because the public domain depends on the copyright laws in force within a particular territory, sometimes a work may be considered “in the public domain” of one jurisdiction, but not in another.
text: This means that CC license terms and conditions are not triggered by uses permitted under any applicable exceptions and limitations to copyright, nor do license terms and conditions apply to elements of a licensed work that are in the public domain.
text: Note that, in some cases, a work may be in the public domain under the copyright laws of some jurisdictions but not others.
text: If I take a photograph of another work that is in the public domain, can I apply a CC license to my photo?
text: As examples, the works of William Shakespeare and Ludwig van Beethoven, and most early silent films, are in the public domain either by virtue of their having been created before copyright existed, or by their copyright term having expired.
text: Some works are not covered by copyright, and are therefore in the public domain
text: As rights vary by country and jurisdiction, a work may be subject to rights in one country and be in the public domain in another.
text: For example: the works of Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Machado de Assis, Olavo Bilac and Edgar Allan Poe are in the public domain worldwide as they all died over 100 years ago.
text: The claim that "pre-1925 works are in the public domain" is correct only for published works; unpublished works are under federal copyright for at least the life of the author plus 70 years.
text: Consequently, in the US, foreign-sourced works and US-sourced works are now treated differently, with foreign-sourced works remaining under copyright regardless of compliance with formalities, while domestically-sourced works may be in the public domain if they failed to comply with then-existing formalities requirements—a situation described as odd by some scholars, and unfair by some US-based rightsholders.
text: Works of the United States Government and various other governments are excluded from copyright law and may therefore be considered to be in the public domain in their respective countries.
text: Practically speaking, though, if a work is in the public domain, it might as well have an all-permissive non-copyleft free software license.