public domain

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   property rights that are held by the public at large

   Broaderproperty right

Questions about public domain

What does public domain mean?

public domain means "property rights that are held by the public at large".

Is public domain a common word?

public domain is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.