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
• Now the cat’s out of the bag and the recording is out in public domain.
  — David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 22 Oct. 2019
• Moore said all of the research is in the public domain.
  — Tim Fitzpatrick, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Sep. 2022
• Patty rewrites the lyrics of songs that are in the public domain.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2019
• 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
• Where that starts to change is in the new additions to the public domain.
  — Steven Lubar, Smithsonian, 1 Oct. 2019
• 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
• How big a cost are humans willing to bear to leave the planet?—lie in the public domain.
  — Sarah Scoles, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2017
• The chilling 911 call of his wife, Ashley, is in the public domain.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2021
• Very little is known about the man himself, and what is known has been in the public domain for a long time.
  — David Ellis, The Atlantic, 8 June 2019
• 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
• According to the Reno Memo, the design will be a public domain -— just like ours.
  — Lainey Seyler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 Apr. 2018
• Since the image of the American flag is in the public domain, anyone can use it.
  — Michael D. Breidenbach, The Atlantic, 4 July 2018
• 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
• Just as in the private sector, there aren’t enough female CEOs in the public domain, either.
  — Shirley Leung, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2019
• 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
• Flix is one of the largest libraries of public domain animation and live action and over the next year will be doubling the size of its library.
  — Kansas City Star, 10 June 2024
• The previous owner would retain the rights to Life’s photography and content going back to the 1930s, as public domain laws dictate.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024