Another meaning of "public domain" is a work whose intellectual property rights (copyright, patent, trademark) have either expired or never existed. This is different than export controls meanings.

While many popular characters already exist in the public domain, there isn't much precedent for the impending wave of copyright expirations of iconic 20th-century cartoons, superheroes and ...

The jurisdiction of the general public. It refers to intellectual property that has either been voluntarily placed in the public domain by its author or that has passed its copyright, trademark or ...

Get ready for a creative revolution! Join us as we explore iconic characters soon to enter the public domain and the endless ...

It’s official. Work (be it art or music or any kind of content, it seems) produced 100% by AI cannot be copyrighted. That is, if a machine made it, then no human can claim ownership and profit ...

Open Access items carry what’s called a CC0 designation. This means the Smithsonian dedicates the digital asset into the public domain, meaning it is free of copyright restrictions and you can use it ...

Warner Bros. has won the dismissal of a lawsuit challenging its copyright to 'Superman' in the U.K. and other territories.

2019 marks the first mass copyright expiration in more than two decades, freeing up works like Robert Frost's "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening" for academic, creative and commercial use.