public domain
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He also kept copious and documented records of the people he knew: hence the piles of emails, photos and other documents that are now in the public domain.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 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
Meanwhile, the Bible bursts with globally familiar stories, all of which are in the public domain.
From Salon • Mar. 29, 2026
Netflix calls Seedance “a high-speed privacy engine” and says that they “will not stand by and watch ByteDance treat our valued IP as free, public domain clip art,” as stated in the letter.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 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
