Public Domain

Public Domain is anything that does not fall under copyright. Things that fall under public domain are things that before 1922, things that have expired copyright, products of the United States government, and things created for public use.

Public domain itself is a copyrighted term.

http://llr.lls.edu/volumes/v36-issue1/martin-original1.pdf

http://www.law.duke.edu/pd/papers/lange_background.pdf

Copyright expires after 70 years after the death of the composer.

Does content, or "how good a work is", come into affect when talking about copyright or public domain? Think of blogs out there that are copyrighted under the creative commons license.

http://www.law.duke.edu/pd/papers/lange_background.pdf

Things to look at: trademarks, how different public domain is internationally, once in public domain is it possible to go back into copyright, current lawsuits/cases involving public domain--Disney "Is Mickey Mouse public domain yet?".

This group consists of Royce, Ansley and Carrie.