More and Less in the Public Domain

05-09-2008 | 11:59 AM EST

If you read my earlier post about the Creative Commons-co-sponsored public forum, Who Owns This Image? Art, Access, and the Public Domain After Bridgeman v. Corel, you might be interested in learning a little more about public domain works and copyright. In a blog post today, William Patry asks, "When can you commit infringement by copying public domain works?" The answer? In Patry's own words: "When the public domain work is a derivative work and the underlying published work is still under copyright." It turns out, some public domain works are maybe a little less in the public domain than you'd think.

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