public domain
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Sinai.ai says it only offers books that are either in the public domain or ones where the author, their estate, or the publisher signed off first.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
Footage of the restraint incident, which occurred outside the shower room almost 20 minutes later, has been in the public domain for years.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
Earlier this year, the preliminary design of Betty Boop featured in “Dizzy Dishes” entered public domain.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
“I had thought these were our deepest secrets, the things we kept entirely for each other,” she thinks, but by some grievous betrayal they have entered the public domain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
Congress effectively outlawed their communal property, passing vast acreages into the public domain, tracts which then suddenly wound up in the hands of large American ranching enterprises like the Devine Company.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
