If Your Taxes Paid For Something-How Can You Be
Double Taxed to Use Something You Already Own?
The Public Domain ABSOLUTELY FREE! MUSIC, TEXT, AND ART!! COPY ALL YOU WANT!! If you saw an advertisement like this, you might wonder,
“What’s the catch?” When it comes to the public domain, there is no catch. If a book, song, movie, or artwork is in the public domain,
then it is not protected by intellectual property laws (copyright, trademark, or patent laws)—which means it’s free for you to use without permission.
As a general rule, most works enter the public domain because of old age. This includes any work published in the United States before
1923 or works published before 1964 for which copyrights were not renewed. (Renewal was a requirement for works published before 1978.)
A smaller group of works fell into the public domain because they were published without a copyright notice, which was necessary for
works published in the United States before March 1, 1989. Some works are in the public domain because the owner has indicated a desire to
give them to the public without copyright protection. As discussed throughout this chapter, the rules establishing the public domain status
for each of these types of works are different.
Edicts of governmentMain article: edict of government
The United States Copyright Office considers "edicts of government," such as judicial opinions, administrative rulings, legislative
enactments, public ordinances, and similar official legal documents, not copyrightable for reasons of public policy. This applies to
such works whether they are federal, state, or local as well as to those of foreign governments.
Copyright Citation Fairuse
Is It Wise to Sell the Public Domain
US Supreme Court 10% Ruling
In 1999 I took $22,000 from an inheritance and opened a small publishing company
in Kerrville, Texas. Thousands of mail out advertisements to every concern in a 15
state area suggested even government is not interested in purchasing the
public domain
The US Supreme Court ruled that if a copyrighted item is changed by as little as
10% is is an origional.
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Copyright Citation Fairuse
Title 18 USC 913 Impersonator Making Arrest
1 Sale To City of Alhambra, California
US Supreme Court 10% Ruling
In 1999 I took $22,000 from an inheritance and opened a small publishing company
in Kerrville, Texas. Thousands of mail out advertisements to every concern in a 15
state area suggested even government is not interested in purchasing the
public domain
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