The legal term public domain refers to works whose exclusive intellectual property rights have expired,1 have been forfeited,2 have been expressly waived, or are inapplicable.3 For example, the works of Shakespeare and Beethoven, and most of the early silent films, are all now in the public domain by either being created before copyrights existed or by their copyright term expiring

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