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Public Domain Mark (PDM) is a symbol used to indicate that a work is free of known copyright restrictions and therefore in the public domain. It is analogous to the copyright symbol, which is commonly used to indicate that a work is copyrighted, often as part of a copyright notice. The Public Domain Mark was developed by Creative Commons[1][2] and is only an indicator of the public domain status of a work – it itself does not release a copyrighted work into the public domain like CC0.
The symbol is encoded in Unicode as U+1F16E🅮CIRCLED C WITH OVERLAID BACKSLASH,[3] which was added in Unicode 13.0 in March 2020.[4]
As there is no single definition of public domain and copyright laws differ by jurisdiction, a work can be in the public domain in some countries while still being under copyright in others (so called hybrid status). It is also difficult to assess the legal status of many works. The PDM is recommended to be used only for works that are likely free from any copyright restrictions worldwide.[5]
^"Creative Commons announces the Public Domain Mark". The H Open. The H. 2010-10-12. Retrieved 2010-10-12.
^Diane Peters (2010-10-11). "Improving Access to the Public Domain: the Public Domain Mark". Creative Commons. Retrieved 2010-10-12.
PublicDomainMark (PDM) is a symbol used to indicate that a work is free of known copyright restrictions and therefore in the publicdomain. It is analogous...
The publicdomain (PD) consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply. Those rights may have expired, been...
Works are in the publicdomain if they are not covered by the intellectual property right known as copyright, or if the intellectual property rights to...
the publicdomain in 2024. Sound recordings that were published in 1923 enter the publicdomain. The most famous work to enter the publicdomain in the...
publication rights for 25 years. 2026 marks the first year since 2006 that works will enter the publicdomain in Australia, which changed its copyright...
domain name is usually administered by a domain name registrar who sell its services to the public. A fully qualified domain name (FQDN) is a domain name...
its PublicDomainMark, a tool for labeling works already in the publicdomain. Together, CC0 and the PublicDomainMark replace the PublicDomain Dedication...
Commons is to provide a media file repository "that makes available publicdomain and freely-licensed educational media content to all, and that acts...
copyright expires, it enters the publicdomain. The following is a list of creators whose works enter the publicdomain in 2021. Since laws vary globally...
subject to copyright, but those listed here are believed to be in the publicdomain in the United States. This means that no government, organization, or...
Lessig, Hal Abelson, and Eric Eldred with the support of Center for the PublicDomain. The first article in a general interest publication about Creative...
conveying personal opinions, feelings and beliefs. Contributors select a publicdomainmark or a Creative Commons attribution license, which enables others to...
list of authors whose works entered the publicdomain in part of the world in 2015. A work enters the publicdomain in most European countries (with the...
Following is a list of publicdomain works with multimedia adaptations. This lists includes works for which installments exist in multiple forms of media...
result in abandonment of the mark, whereby any party may use the mark. An abandoned mark is not irrevocably in the publicdomain, but may instead be re-registered...
strong while featuring short public keys, more easily publishable in DNS. The original DomainKeys was designed by Mark Delany of Yahoo! and enhanced...
GoDaddy Inc. is an American publicly traded Internet domain registry, domain registrar and web hosting company headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, and incorporated...
Foundation projects, publicdomain advocacy groups and pirate parties are connected with free and open licenses. Publicdomain licenses Creative Commons...
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (/ˈzʌkərbɜːrɡ/; born May 14, 1984) is an American businessman and philanthropist. He co-founded the social media service Facebook...
Cybersquatting (also known as domain squatting) is the practice of registering, trafficking in, or using an Internet domain name, with a bad faith intent...
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the publicdomain. Mark Wade. "CZ-2D". Encyclopedia Astronautica. Archived from the original...
The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical and distributed name service that provides a naming system for computers, services, and other resources...
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