Talk:public domain

RFV
Rfv-sense: Not subject to any copyright or patent restrictions. Isn't this just an attributive form of the noun? ---&#62; Tooironic (talk) 23:22, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Even when it's used predicatively? 23:24, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Maybe it would help if the definition for the noun actually made sense: "The feature of intellectual property being not protected under patent or copyright". Just try to substitute that into the phrase "in the public domain" and use it in a sentence! Chuck Entz (talk) 23:38, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

I think these are two different things. The noun public domain is the collective sense of all things to which no intellectual property can attach. By contrast, the adjective use is more often for individual works. Thus, a public domain book is a book in the public domain, but is not "the public domain", just as a book written in the French language is a French book, but is not the same as the noun, French. bd2412 T 19:41, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

I've removed the definition for now. - -sche (discuss) 23:41, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

Sense 3
The cite at sense 3 might possibly be the same thing as sense 1, in fact. It's hard to know. Equinox ◑ 12:06, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

RFV discussion: December 2021–January 2022
"The realm of published works, as opposed to unpublished tracts." There is one quotation in the entry (and arguably it doesn't fully support this definition as it says that the author did not refer to works not in the public domain, including "reports of limited circulation like those to licensing and funding agencies, and notes in newsletters" – but these are published works), but I have a feeling it is just an erroneous use of the term. (The entry is appearing as WOTD on 1 January 2022.) — SGconlaw (talk) 19:35, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
 * You have a problem, because I don't think this is going to pass, and it takes a full month before something can fail RFV (and 9 January is after 1 January) Kiwima (talk) 03:09, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
 * it’s OK; the entry itself won’t look very pretty with the tag on it, but I’m not too fussed. I can omit the challenged sense from the WOTD using an ellipsis. — SGconlaw (talk) 04:24, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 20:22, 9 January 2022 (UTC)