Public Domain - Revision history

Mike Linksvayer: merge

2009-08-05T03:30:34Z

merge

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	Public domain content in practice is any content without copyright. It may be deliberately freed from restrictions by the copyright owner, or the copyright may lapse after a certain time. All content created by US government employees as part of their employment is public domain, making US federal sites (considered together) probably the largest source of public domain content by far.		#REDIRECT [[Public domain]]

	~~The legal details in practice vary between countries. More information about public domain can be found at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain Wikipedia's article on the public domain].~~

	~~== Creative Commons tagging of Public Domain content ==~~

	~~Creative Commons' [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/ public domain dedication] is now available.~~

	[[~~CCZero]] is a new mark which improves and extends this.~~

	~~== Appropedia's~~ Public ~~Domain Search ==~~

	~~[http://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia%27s_Public_Domain_Search Appropedia's Public Domain Search] was started in late 2007 when it was discovered there was no effective public~~ domain search available. This operates on a completely different method to searches using the Creative Commons marks. It uses a manually maintained index of sites known to be public domain - thus it is does not yield 100% public domain results, and content must be checked to confirm public domain status. Reliability is expected to improve, and feedback by users is encouraged.

	~~As the CC public domain declaration and CCZero mark become widely used, searches based on the CC marks would be expected to take over from Appropedia's Public Domain Search.~~

	~~== See also ==~~

	* [[Cultivating the Public Domain]]


	~~[[Category:Public Domain~~]]

Chriswaterguy at 12:19, 11 February 2008

2008-02-11T12:19:54Z

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	Public domain content in ~~practices~~ any content without copyright. It may be deliberately freed from restrictions by the copyright owner, or the copyright may lapse after a certain time. All content created by US government employees as part of their employment is public domain, making US federal sites (considered together) probably the largest source of public domain content by far.		Public domain content in practice is any content without copyright. It may be deliberately freed from restrictions by the copyright owner, or the copyright may lapse after a certain time. All content created by US government employees as part of their employment is public domain, making US federal sites (considered together) probably the largest source of public domain content by far.

	The legal details in practice vary between countries. More information about public domain can be found at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain Wikipedia's article on the public domain].		The legal details in practice vary between countries. More information about public domain can be found at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain Wikipedia's article on the public domain].

Chriswaterguy at 12:09, 11 February 2008

2008-02-11T12:09:54Z

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	Public domain content in practices any content without copyright. It may be deliberately freed from restrictions by the copyright owner, or the copyright may lapse after a certain time. All content created by US government employees as part of their employment is public domain, making US federal sites (considered together) probably the largest source of public domain content by far.		Public domain content in practices any content without copyright. It may be deliberately freed from restrictions by the copyright owner, or the copyright may lapse after a certain time. All content created by US government employees as part of their employment is public domain, making US federal sites (considered together) probably the largest source of public domain content by far.

	The legal details in practice vary between countries. More information about public domain can be found at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain Wikipedia's article on the public domain]].		The legal details in practice vary between countries. More information about public domain can be found at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain Wikipedia's article on the public domain].

	== Creative Commons tagging of Public Domain content ==		== Creative Commons tagging of Public Domain content ==

Chriswaterguy: intro, how it works, WP link, CC tagging, Appropedia's Public Domain Search, cat

2008-02-11T12:09:21Z

intro, how it works, WP link, CC tagging, Appropedia's Public Domain Search, cat

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Public domain content in practices any content without copyright. It may be deliberately freed from restrictions by the copyright owner, or the copyright may lapse after a certain time. All content created by US government employees as part of their employment is public domain, making US federal sites (considered together) probably the largest source of public domain content by far.

The legal details in practice vary between countries. More information about public domain can be found at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain Wikipedia's article on the public domain]].

== Creative Commons tagging of Public Domain content ==

Creative Commons' [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/ public domain dedication] is now available.

[[CCZero]] is a new mark which improves and extends this.

== Appropedia's Public Domain Search ==

[http://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia%27s_Public_Domain_Search Appropedia's Public Domain Search] was started in late 2007 when it was discovered there was no effective public domain search available. This operates on a completely different method to searches using the Creative Commons marks. It uses a manually maintained index of sites known to be public domain - thus it is does not yield 100% public domain results, and content must be checked to confirm public domain status. Reliability is expected to improve, and feedback by users is encouraged.

As the CC public domain declaration and CCZero mark become widely used, searches based on the CC marks would be expected to take over from Appropedia's Public Domain Search.

== See also ==

* [[Cultivating the Public Domain]]

[[Category:Public Domain]]