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public domainness en · NOUN

Etymology

From public domain + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (informal, rare, uncountable) The state or quality of being in the public domain, free of copyright restrictions.
    • Any regime applied to the public domain should ensure such free use. Yet, the ‘public domainness’ does not guarantee as such a freedom to access to the resources it contains. Access to a public domain work will depend on many factors. 2011 March 4, Séverine Dusollier, “SCOPING STUDY ON COPYRIGHT AND RELATED RIGHTS AND THE PUBLIC DOMAIN”, in World Intellectual Property Organization: