public domain

public domain definition - business

public domain

  1. The status of material or products that are available to anyone because they are not subject to copyright or patent protection. Some material cannot be copyrighted, while much material now in the public domain was once subject to copyright that has expired.
  2. Government-owned lands.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Business Terms Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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