What is the legal term for an un-owned copyright?
I seem to remember that there was a legal term for when an intellectual property isn’t owned by anyone and is free for copy. Like classical music or really old movies. Stuff like that. I can’t for the life of me remember the term. I think it was like “open source” or something like that, but googling Open Source just gets stuff about the Valve Source engine of video games.
Thanks for the swift answer. I can’t figure out how to close the question so when it expires I’ll give “Best answer” to the first person who answered. Thank you.
Public Domain. If could be old material, it could be placed deliberately in the public domain by the author, or it could be the product of government funds, such as the murals you see in post offices that are often the work of WPA artists during the depression. “Open source” just means that the source code for the software has been published. It doesn’t mean they don’t own it. It does mean that they want people to be able to write applications for it. So a game engine that’s “open source” means that others can see how it works so they can write games to run under it. “Freeware” is software that’s distributed free. They may ask for voluntary donations, or it may only work for a limited time, but you just don’t have to pay for whatever version is distributed free.
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