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public domain definition

☆ public domain

  1. public lands
  2. the condition of being free from copyright or patent and, hence, open to use by anyone

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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