How to Use public domain in a Sentence

public domain

noun

• All of which, by the way, was very much in the public domain.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 7 Mar. 2022
• Moore said all of the research is in the public domain.
  — Tim Fitzpatrick, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Sep. 2022
• Mount Graham was one of the first parcels to be placed in the public domain.
  — AZCentral.com, 20 Aug. 2021
• Ranchers are charged $1.35 per month per cow for the use of the public domain.
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Dec. 2022
• These are some of the more famous names that will join the likes of Shakespeare and Beethoven in the public domain.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 31 Dec. 2020
• The chilling 911 call of his wife, Ashley, is in the public domain.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2021
• There are a lot of things that have not yet been in the public domain yet that are relevant.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 3 July 2021
• Over the years, of course, British spies tried to put intelligence in the public domain.
  — Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2022
• The financial details of the deal remain out of the public domain.
  — Izzy Colon, SPIN, 24 Jan. 2022
• The rights for the film changed hands several times and weren’t renewed in the 1970s, which allowed the movie to fall into public domain.
  — Jeanne Bonner, CNN, 10 Dec. 2022
• Both names are in the public domain, while Biscoff could be trademarked.
  — Daniel Michaels, WSJ, 12 July 2021
• How much of all of the music industry stuff, the poop stuff, the Warhol-print stuff — how much does the whole public domain of it all play into this?
  — Sam Sanders, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2023
• Roark says that while there was a lot of information about Melanie in the public domain, there wasn’t much about William.
  — Anne Easton, Forbes, 17 June 2022
• Books old enough to be in the public domain may be available for free download online.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 7 Apr. 2020
• If the pandemic is to be countered on the scale required, the vaccines need to be made public domain.
  — Robert Zubrin, National Review, 25 Nov. 2020
• Almost all of the music is classical and in the public domain.
  — Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 22 Sep. 2022
• All of this scientific work has been in the public domain since mid-March.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2020
• Welch said that in all, about 15 million acres were carved out of the public domain to be designated Apache lands.
  — AZCentral.com, 20 Aug. 2021
• The suit was eventually settled, and the tape remained in the public domain.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 6 Jan. 2022
• The Sun Also Rises is another huge book that enters the public domain in the new year.
  — Adam Rowe, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021
• Prior to the law’s passage, the first sound recordings wouldn’t have entered the public domain until 2047.
  — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Dec. 2021
• Wane said the photographer is still alive and lives in the suburbs of Liverpool, but doesn’t want his name in the public domain.
  — Jack Guy, CNN, 3 Oct. 2022
• Prince Harry’s book Spare is just days away from being released and already much of the content is in the public domain.
  — Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 5 Jan. 2023
• The choice for public domain put a foot down for users, as opposed to corporations, and the web has wrestled with the choice ever since.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 17 May 2023
• The photos stay in the public domain even when a person is not prosecuted or is found not guilty.
  — Francesca Giuliani-Hoffman, CNN, 2 July 2020
• Making the web public domain opened it up to anyone who had a computer.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 17 May 2023
• After the stories that are now in the public domain, and before the Copyrighted Stories, the Great War happened.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 25 June 2020
• The counterclaim sought to invalidate Nike’s trademark for the shoe and move the trademark for the Air Force 1 into the public domain.
  — Ann Gehan, Dallas News, 11 July 2021
• In the mid-2000s, Yuriko launched the Arigato Project, a volunteer effort to stage a group of Graham dances that had passed into the public domain.
  — Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2022
• Both exhibits take Vincent Van Gogh’s works — which are in the public domain — and bring them to life with technology.
  — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 8 July 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024