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Nov 28, 2009
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pub'lic domain'



Law.
1. the status of a literary work or an invention whose copyright or patent has expired or that never had such protection.
2. land owned by the government.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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